On the log-concavity of the Wright function

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Authors R. A. C. Ferreira, Thomas Simon

Publication date 15 December 2022

Abstract: We investigate the log-concavity on the half-line of the Wright function $$ in the probabilistic setting $alphain(0,1)$ and $$ Applications are given to the construction of generalized entropies associated to the corresponding Mittag-Leffler function. A natural conjecture for the equivalence between the log-concavity of the Wright function and the existence of such generalized entropies is formulated. The problem is solved for $$ and in the classical case $$ of the Mittag-Leffler distribution, which exhibits a certain critical parameter $alph{a}_{\ast }=\mathrm{0.771667...}$ defined implicitly on the Gamma function and characterizing the log-concavity. We also prove that the probabilistic Wright functions are always unimodal, and that they are multiplicatively strongly unimodal if and only if $$ or $alphale1/2$ and $$

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