A complete monotonicity property of the gamma function (Q1877807)

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A complete monotonicity property of the gamma function
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    A complete monotonicity property of the gamma function (English)
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    19 August 2004
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    A real valued \(C^{\infty}\) function \(f\) is strictly completely monotonic on an interval \(I\) if \((-1)^k f^{(k)}(x)>0\) for all \(x\in I,\, k\in \mathbb{N}\). For the gamma function the result is offered that \(x\mapsto 1-\ln x+(\ln \Gamma(x+1))/x\) is strictly completely monotonic on \(]0,\infty[\) and its limits at \(0\) and \(\infty\) are \(\infty\) and \(0,\) respectively.
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    gamma function
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    complete monotonicity
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