Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities: refinements, extensions, and a class of logarithmically completely monotonic functions (Q2378765)

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Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities: refinements, extensions, and a class of logarithmically completely monotonic functions
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    Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities: refinements, extensions, and a class of logarithmically completely monotonic functions (English)
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    14 January 2009
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    Sufficient and necessary conditions are presented that a class of functions involving ratios of Euler's gamma function and originating from Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities are logarithmically completely monotonic. From this, Wendel's, Gautschi's, Kershaw's, Laforgia's, Bustoz-Ismail's, Merkle's and Elezović-Giordano-Pečarić's inequalities are refined, extended and sharpened, and a double inequality on the divided differences of the psi and polygamma function is deduced straightforwardly.
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    sufficient and necessary condition
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    logarithmically completely monotonic function
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    inequality
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    ratio of gamma functions
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    exponential function
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    psi function
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    polygamma function
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