New asymptotic formulas and inequalities for the gamma function based on continued fractions

DOI10.1007/s00025-018-0785-xzbMath1390.33006MaRDI QIDQ1743252

Dawei Lu, Lixin Song, Xiaoguang Wang, Junying Wang

Publication date: 13 April 2018

Published in: Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-018-0785-x

zbMATH Keywords

gamma function; inequalities; rate of convergence; continued fraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

33B15: Gamma, beta and polygamma functions

41A60: Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.)

65D20: Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables

11A55: Continued fractions

41A25: Rate of convergence, degree of approximation