Sub- and super-additive properties of the psi function

DOI10.1216/RMJ-2014-44-5-1399MaRDI QIDQ485868zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Horst Alzer

Publication date 14 January 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1420071547

zbMATH Keywords

computer systemconvex functionspsi functionsubadditive functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Functional inequalities, including subadditivity, convexity, etc. (39B62)

Review text

The author proves interesting subadditive or superadditive properties of the Euler digamma function, involving powers of arguments or sum of arguments. The proofs involve work with more subcases, and are also based on computer computations.

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