Some characterizations of the Euler gamma function

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2015-45-4-1225MaRDI QIDQ888116zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Janusz Matkowski

Publication date 4 November 2015

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1446472432

zbMATH Keywords

characterizationconvex functionfunctional equationgamma functiongeometrically convex function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions in one variable, generalizations (26A51) Inequalities involving other types of functions (26D07) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Functional equations for real functions (39B22)

Review text

The author proves a general Bohr-Mollerup type theorem on the characterization of the Euler gamma function. A consequence of his result states as follows: If \(f:(0,\infty)\to (0,\infty)\) satisfies \(f(x+1)= xf(x)\) for \(x>0\), with \(f(1)= 1\), and if for every positive integer \(n\), the function \(x\to (f(x^n))^{1/n}\) is convex, then \(f\) is the gamma function.

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