A class of completely monotonic functions involving the polygamma functions

Let $\Gamma (x)$ Γ ( x ) denote the classical Euler gamma function. We set $\psi _{n}(x)=(-1)^{n-1}\psi ^{(n)}(x)$ ψ n ( x ) = ( − 1 ) n − 1 ψ ( n ) ( x ) ($n\in \mathbb{N}$ n ∈ N ), where $\psi ^{(n)}(x)$ ψ ( n ) ( x ) denotes the nth derivative of the psi function $\psi (x)=\Gamma '(x)/\Gamma (x)$ ψ ( x ) = Γ ′ ( x ) / Γ ( x ) . For λ, α, $\beta \in \mathbb{R}$ β ∈ R and $m,n\in \mathbb{N}$ m , n ∈ N , we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the functions $$ L(x;\lambda ,\alpha ,\beta )=\psi _{m+n}(x)-\lambda \psi _{m}(x+ \alpha ) \psi _{n}(x+\beta ) $$ L ( x ; λ , α , β ) = ψ m + n ( x ) − λ ψ m ( x + α ) ψ n ( x + β ) and $-L(x;\lambda ,\alpha ,\beta )$ − L ( x ; λ , α , β ) to be completely monotonic on $(-\min (\alpha ,\beta ,0),\infty )$ ( − min ( α , β , 0 ) , ∞ ) .As a result, we generalize and refine some inequalities involving the polygamma functions and also give some inequalities in terms of the ratio of gamma functions.

On Some Complete Monotonicity of Functions Related to Generalized k − Gamma Function

In this paper, we presented two completely monotonic functions involving the generalized k − gamma function Γ k x and its logarithmic derivative ψ k x , and established some upper and lower bounds for Γ k x in terms of ψ k x .

Necessary and sufficient conditions for complete monotonicity and monotonicity of two functions defined by two derivatives of a function involving trigamma function

In the paper, by virtue of convolution theorem for the Laplace transforms, Bernstein's theorem for completely monotonic functions, some properties of a function involving exponential function, and other analytic techniques, the author finds necessary and sufficient conditions for two functions defined by two derivatives of a function involving trigamma function to be completely monotonic or monotonic. These results generalize corresponding known ones.

Complete monotonicity of a difference constituted by four derivatives of a function involving trigamma function

In the paper, by virtue of convolution theorem for the Laplace transforms, Bernstein's theorem for completely monotonic functions, and other techniques, the author finds necessary and sufficient conditions for a difference constituted by four derivatives of a function involving trigamma function to be completely monotonic.

Monotonicity and complete monotonicity of two functions constituted via three derivatives of a function involving trigamma function

In the paper, by convolution theorem of the Laplace transforms, a monotonicity rule for the ratio of two Laplace transforms, Bernstein's theorem for completely monotonic functions, and other analytic techniques, the author (1) presents the decreasing monotonicity of a ratio constituted via three derivatives of a function involving trigamma function; (2) discovers necessary and sufficient conditions for a function constituted via three derivatives of a function involving trigamma function to be completely monotonic. These results conform previous guesses posed by the author.

Complete monotonicity of a difference defined by four derivatives of a function containing trigamma function

In the paper, by virtue of convolution theorem for the Laplace transforms, logarithmic convexity of the gamma function, Bernstein's theorem for completely monotonic functions, and other techniques, the author finds necessary and sufficient conditions for a difference defined by four derivatives of a function containing trigamma function to be completely monotonic. Moreover, by virtue of Cebysev integral inequality, the author presents logarithmic convexity of the sequence of polygamma functions.

Monotonicity of a ratio involving trigamma and tetragamma functions

In the paper, by convolution theorem of the Laplace transforms, Bernstein's theorem for completely monotonic functions, and logarithmic concavity of a function involving exponential functions, the author(1) finds necessary and sufficient conditions for a ratio involving trigamma and tetragamma functions to be monotonic on the right real semi-axis;(2) and presents alternative proofs of necessary and sufficient conditions for a function and its negativity involving trigamma and tetragamma functions to be completely monotonic on the positive semi-axis.These results generalizes known conclusions recently obtained by the author.

Completely monotonicity of class functions involving the polygamma and related functions

In this paper, the authors prove some inequalities and completely monotonic properties of polygamma functions. As an application, we give lower bound for the zeta function on natural numbers. Partially, we answer the fifth and sixth open problems listed in [F. Qi and R. P. Agarwal, On complete monotonicity for several classes of functions related to ratios of gamma functions, J. Inequalities Appl. 2019(36) (2019) 42]. We propose two open problems on completely monotonic functions related to polygamma functions.

Some logarithmically completely monotonic functions and inequalities for multinomial coefficients and multivariate beta functions

In the paper, the authors extend a function arising from the Bernoulli trials in probability and involving the gamma function to its largest ranges, find logarithmically complete monotonicity of these extended functions, and, in light of logarithmically complete monotonicity of these extended functions, derive some inequalities for multinomial coefficients and multivariate beta functions. These results recover, extend, and generalize some known conclusions.