A characterization of Euler's constant (Q392150)
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A characterization of Euler's constant (English)
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13 January 2014
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For Euler's gamma function \(\Gamma(x)\) the author proves some new interesting inequalities. The main result says that if \(a\) and \(b\) are real numbers then the inequality \[ \Gamma\left(x^a +y^b\right) \leq \Gamma\left(\Gamma(x)+\Gamma(y)\right) \] is true for all \(x, y>0\) if and only if \(a=b=-\gamma\), where \(\gamma=0.57721\ldots\) is the Euler constant. This result gives ``a new characterization of the famous Euler constant \(\gamma\)''. To obtain the main theorem the author applies a number of very subtle inequalities for the gamma function which are interesting in their own right. The one particularly worth noting is: \[ \Gamma(x)\geq x^{-\gamma} \] for all positive \(x\), where the equality holds only for \(x=1\).
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Euler's constant
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gamma function
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functional inequalities
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