A harmonic mean inequality for the digamma function and related results (Q2360066)

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A harmonic mean inequality for the digamma function and related results
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    A harmonic mean inequality for the digamma function and related results (English)
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    23 June 2017
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    Summary: We present some inequalities and a concavity property of the digamma function \(\psi=\Gamma'/\Gamma\), where \(\Gamma\) denotes Euler's gamma function. In particular, we offer a new characterization of Euler's constant \(\gamma=0.57721\dots\). We prove that \(-\gamma\) is the minimum of the harmonic mean of \(\psi(x)\) and \(\psi(1/x)\) for \(x>0\).
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    digamma function
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    inequalities
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    concavity
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    harmonic mean
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    Euler's constant
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