Bounds for the logarithm of the Euler gamma function and its derivatives

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2015.08.034MaRDI QIDQ499186zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Harold G. Diamond, Armin Straub

Publication date 30 September 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03267

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionBernoulli polynomialscomplete monotonicitygamma functioninequalitiespsi function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

Abstract: We consider differences between $logGamma(x)$ and truncations of certain classical asymptotic expansions in inverse powers of $x-lambda$ whose coefficients are expressed in terms of Bernoulli polynomials $B_n(lambda)$, and we obtain conditions under which these differences are strictly completely monotonic. In the symmetric cases $lambda=0$ and $lambda=1/2$, we recover results of Sonin, N"orlund and Alzer. Also we show how to derive these asymptotic expansions using the functional equation of the logarithmic derivative of the Euler gamma function, the representation of $1/x$ as a difference $F(x+1)-F(x)$, and a backward induction.

Review text

Let \(\psi(x)\) denote the logarithmic derivative of the Euler gamma function \(\Gamma(x)\). The authors show (Theorem 3.1) that, under some additional assumptions, the truncation of the asymptotic expansion of \(\psi(x)\) in terms of the inverse powers of \(x-\lambda\), \(\lambda\in[0,1]\), is a lower or an upper bound of \(\psi(x)\), for \(x>\lambda\). This result enables the authors to find conditions under which the truncation of the asymptotic expansion of the Euler gamma function in terms of the inverse powers of \(x-\lambda\), \(\lambda\in[0,1]\), differs from \(\Gamma(x)\) by a function that is strictly completely monotonic on \((\lambda,\infty)\) (Theorem 1.2).

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