A class of logarithmically completely monotonic functions associated with the gamma function (Q2519702)

Denote by \(CM(I)\) the set of functions \(f\) which are completely monotonic on an interval \(I\), that is \((-1)^{k}f^{(k)}(x)\geq 0\) for \(x\in I\) and \(k\geq 0.\) A positive function \(f\) is said to be logarithmically completely monotonic on \(I\) if \(\log \circ f\in CM(I).\) The authors consider the family of functions \(f_{a,b,c,r}\) (for \(a\geq 0\) and \(b,c,r\in \mathbb{R}\) with \( r\neq 0)\) defined by \[ f_{a,b,c,r}(x)=\left[ \frac{\sqrt[x]{\Gamma (x+1)}}{x^{c}}\left( 1+\frac{a}{x }\right) ^{x+b}\right] ^{r},\qquad x\in (0,\infty), \] where \(\Gamma (x)=\int_{0}^{\infty }t^{x-1}e^{-t}dt.\) Some conditions for logarithmically completely monotony of such functions are proved.