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In the paper the \\textit{power mean} for the numbers \\(\\{x_j\\}\\), weights \\(\\{p_j\\}\\) and a real parameter \\(r\\) is defined as  \\[  M_n^{[r]}(x_j,p_j)=\\left(\\sum_{j=1}^n p_jx_j^r\\right)^{1/r}\\quad(r\\not= 0),\\qquad M_n^{[0]}(x_j,p_j)=\\prod_{j=1}^n x_j^{p_j}.  \\]     As the gamma function is strictly convex for \\(x>0\\), we have the well known inequality  \\[  \\Gamma(p_1x_1+\\cdots p_nx_n)\\leq p_1\\Gamma(x_1)+\\cdots p_n\\Gamma(x_n),  \\]  which can now be seen as  \\[  \\Gamma\\left(M_n^{[1]}(x_j,p_j)\\right)\\leq M_n^{[1]}(\\Gamma(x_j),p_j).  \\]     The author now introduces the following real numbers: \\(r_0=0.21609\\ldots\\) : the unique positive zero of \\(\\psi(x)+x\\psi'(x)\\), \\(r_1=1.46163\\ldots\\) : the unique positive zero of \\(\\psi(x)\\), \\(r_2=2.08907\\ldots\\) : the unique positive zero of \\(x\\psi(x)-1\\),  \\[ \\begin{alignedat}{2}  \\alpha&=0.01317\\ldots&&= \\sup_{0<x<r_0} \\left\\{\\psi(x)+x\\psi'(x)\\right\\}/\\left\\{\\psi(x)-x(\\psi(x))^2 \\right\\}, \\\\ \\beta&=11.29416\\ldots &&= \\inf_{r_1<x<r_2} \\left\\{\\psi(x)+x\\psi'(x)\\right\\}/\\left\\{\\psi(x)-x(\\psi(x)) ^2\\right\\}. \\end{alignedat} \\]  The main result of the paper is:  \\[  \\Gamma\\left(M_n^{[r]}(x_j,p_j)\\right)\\leq M_n^{[r]}(\\Gamma(x_j),p_j)  \\]  holds for all positive \\(n\\)-tuples \\(x_j\\) and all positive weights \\(p_j\\) with sum \\(1\\), if and only if \\(\\alpha\\leq r\\leq \\beta\\).    Furthermore some corollaries are given, one of which concerns the case \\(r=-1\\): the classical harmonic mean. For this mean the author shows  \\[  \\text{all }x_j\\in [a,b]\\Rightarrow\\Gamma\\left(M_n^{[-1]}(x_j,p_j)\\right)\\leq M_n^{[-1]}(\\Gamma(x_j),p_j),  \\]   \\[  \\text{either all }x_j\\in (0,a]\\text{ or all }x_j\\in [b,\\infty) \\Rightarrow\\Gamma\\left(M_n^{[-1]}(x_j,p_j)\\right)\\geq M_n^{[-1]}(\\Gamma(x_j),p_j),  \\]  where \\(0<a<b\\) are the only positive zeros of \\(2\\psi(x)-x(\\psi(x))^2+x\\psi'(x)\\). 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