INEQUALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH RATIOS OF GAMMA FUNCTIONS

We use properties of the gamma function to estimate the products$\prod _{k=1}^{n}(4k-3)/4k$and$\prod _{k=1}^{n}(4k-1)/4k$, motivated by the work of Chen and Qi [‘Completely monotonic function associated with the gamma function and proof of Wallis’ inequality’,Tamkang J. Math.36(4) (2005), 303–307] and Morticiet al.[‘Completely monotonic functions and inequalities associated to some ratio of gamma function’,Appl. Math. Comput.240(2014), 168–174].

Integral Representations for Multivariate Logarithmic Polynomials

In the paper, by induction and recursively, the author proves that the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials and its reciprocal are a Bernstein function and a completely monotonic function respectively, establishes a Lévy-Khintchine representation for the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials, deduces an integral representation for multivariate logarithmic polynomials, presents an integral representation for the reciprocal of the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials, computes real and imaginary parts for the generating function of multivariate logarithmic polynomials, derives two integral formulas, and denies the uniform convergence of a known integral representation for Bernstein functions.

A logarithmically completely monotonic function involving the gamma function and originating from the Catalan numbers and function

<p><span>In the paper, the authors find necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for a function involving the gamma function and originating from investigation of properties of the Catalan numbers and function in combinatorics to be logarithmically completely monotonic.</span></p>

Logarithmically complete monotonicity of a power-exponential function involving the logarithmic and psi functions

Let \(\Gamma\) and \(\psi=\frac{\Gamma'}{\Gamma}\) be respectively the classical Euler gamma function and the psi function and let \(\gamma=-\psi(1)=0.57721566\dotsc\) stand for the Euler-Mascheroni constant. In the paper, the authors simply confirm the logarithmically complete monotonicity of the power-exponential function \(q(t)=t^{t[\psi(t)-\ln t]-\gamma}\) on the unit interval \((0,1)\), concisely deny that \(q(t)\) is a Stieltjes function, surely point out fatal errors appeared in the paper [V. Krasniqi and A. Sh. Shabani, On a conjecture of a logarithmically completely monotonic function, Aust. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 11 (2014), no.1, Art.5, 5 pages; Available online at http://ajmaa.org/cgi-bin/paper.pl?string=v11n1/V11I1P5.tex], and partially solve a conjecture posed in the article [B.-N. Guo, Y.-J. Zhang, and F. Qi, Refinements and sharpenings of some double inequalities for bounding the gamma function, J. Inequal. Pure Appl. Math. 9 (2008), no.1, Art.17; Available online at http://www.emis.de/journals/JIPAM/article953.html].

A completely monotonic function involving the tri- and tetra-gamma functions

The di-gamma function ψ(x) is defined on (0,∞) by $\psi (x) = \frac{{\Gamma '(x)}} {{\Gamma (x)}} $ and ψ (i)(x) for i ∈ ℕ denote the polygamma functions, where Γ(x) is the classical Euler’s gamma function. In this paper we prove that a function involving the difference between [ψ′(x)]2 + ψ″(x) and a proper fraction of x is completely monotonic on (0,∞).