On the positivity of a certain function related with the digamma function

DOI10.1007/S11139-023-00759-5MaRDI QIDQ6139320zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenier Castillo

Publication date 18 January 2024

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14693

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli numberscompletely monotonic functiondigamma function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving derivatives and differential and integral operators (26D10) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

Abstract: It is proved that ${\displaystyle }$left(frac{x^n}{1-e^{-x}} ight)^{(n)}>0${\displaystyle }$ for all $xin(log2,infty)$ and $ninmathbbN$, which improves the result of [Al-Musallam and Bustoz in Ramanujan J. 11 (2006) 399-402].

Review text

\textit{W. E. Clark} and \textit{M. E. H. Ismail} [Anal. Appl. 1, 129--140 (2003; Zbl 1042.33002)] conjectured that \[ \left( \frac{x^{n}}{1-e^{-x}}\right) ^{(n)}>0\tag{1} \] holds for all \(x\in(0,\infty)\) and \(n\in\mathbb{N}\). \textit{F. Al-Musallam} and \textit{J. Bustoz} [Ramanujan J. 11, 399--402 (2006; Zbl 1103.33002)] proved that the inequality (1) is true for all values of \(x\) in the interval \((2\log2,\infty)\) and \(n\in\mathbb{N}\). The author of the paper shows that (1) is true for all \(x\in(\log2,\infty)\), and \(n\in\mathbb{N}\). As a corollary, the author claims that for all \(\alpha\in(0,\infty)\), \(x\in(\log2,\infty)\), and \(n\in\mathbb{N}\), the following inequality holds \[ \left( \frac{x^{n+\alpha}}{1-e^{-x}}\right) ^{(n)}>0. \] We note that the result of this paper (i) is an improvement of the theorem by F. Al-Musallam and J. Busto [loc. cit.], and (ii) proves that the conjecture of W. E. Clark and M. E. H. Ismail [loc. cit.] is false.

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