Complete Monotonicity of classical theta functions and applications

Publication date 4 September 2014

Abstract: We produce trigonometric expansions for Jacobi theta functions\

h e t a_{j} (u, a u), j = 1, 2, 3, 4

where

a u = i p i t, t > 0

. This permits us to prove that

l o g f r a c h e t a_{j} (u, t) h e t a_{j} (0, t), j = 2, 3, 4

and

l o g f r a c h e t a_{1} (u, t) p i h e t a'_{1} (0, t)

as well as

f r a c f r a c d e l t a h e t a_{j} d e l t a u h e t a_{j}

as functions of

t

are completely monotonic. We also interested in the quotients

S_{j} (u, v, t) = f r a c h e t a_{j} (u / 2, i p i t) h e t a_{j} (u / 2, i p i t)

. For fixed

u, v

such that

0 l e q u < v < 1

we prove that the functions

f r a c (f r a c d e l t a d e l t a t S_{j}) S_{j}

for

j = 1, 4

as well as the functions

- f r a c (f r a c d e l t a d e l t a t S_{j}) S_{j}

for

j = 2, 3

are completely monotonic for

t i n] 0, i n f t y [

.\ {it Key words and phrases} : theta functions, elliptic functions, complete monotonicity.

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