Complete monotonicity of some functions involving polygamma functions

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Abstract: In the present paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the functions and respectively to be monotonic and completely monotonic on (0,infty), where iinmathbbN, alpha>0 and are scalars, and psi(i)(x) are polygamma functions.


The authors prove complete monotonicity properties of some functions connected with the polygamma functions. For example, if \(a\) is a real number, then \(a|\psi^{(i)}(x)|- x|\psi^{(i+1)}(x)|\) is completely monotonic on \((0,+\infty)\) iff \(a\geq i+1\). The similar property holds for the function \({a\over x}|\psi^{(i)}(x)|- |\psi^{(i+1)}(x)|\).



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