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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

digamma functionBernoulli numberscompletely monotonic 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].

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