A submultiplicative property of the psi function

DOI10.1016/S0377-0427(98)00190-3MaRDI QIDQ1300796zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Horst Alzer, O. G. Ruehr

Publication date 28 August 2000

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-0427(98)00190-3

zbMATH Keywords

functional inequalitiesgamma and digamma (psi) functionsubadditivitysubmultiplicativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities for sums, series and integrals (26D15) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

Review text

The main result offered by the authors is that \(\Gamma'(xy+t)\Gamma(x+t)\Gamma(y+t) \leq \Gamma(xy+t)\Gamma'(x+t)\Gamma'(y+t)\) for all nonnegative \(x\) and \(y\) iff \(t\geq a\) where \(\Gamma\) is Euler's gamma function and \(a\) is the only positive number with \(\Gamma'(a)=\Gamma(a).\) They offer also a similar result with subadditivity in place of submultiplicity of \(\psi=\Gamma'/\Gamma\) and with \(\Gamma'(a)=0\) in place of \(\Gamma'(a)=\Gamma(a).\)

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