An inequality involving the gamma and digamma functions

DOI10.1515/JAA-2016-0005MaRDI QIDQ289629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Feng Qi, Bai-Ni Guo

Publication date 30 May 2016

Published in Journal of Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4698

zbMATH Keywords

gamma functionmonotonicityinequalitynegativitypolygamma functionpsi functionapplication

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving other types of functions (26D07) Monotonic functions, generalizations (26A48) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

Abstract: In the paper, we establish an inequality involving the gamma and digamma functions and use it to prove the negativity and monotonicity of a function involving the gamma and digamma functions.

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