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Elsevier, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 1(205), p. 281-290

DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2008.07.005

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Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities: Refinements, extensions, and a class of logarithmically completely monotonic functions

Journal article published in 2008 by Feng Qi ORCID, Bai-Ni Guo ORCID
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Abstract

In the article, sufficient and necessary conditions that a class of functions involving ratio of Euler's gamma functions and originating from Wendel's and Gautschi's inequalities are logarithmically completely monotonic are presented. From this, Wendel's, Gautschi's, Kershaw's, Laforgia's, Bustoz-Ismail's, Merkle's and Elezovic-Giordano-Pecaric's inequalities are refined, extended and sharpened, and a double inequality on the divided differences of the psi and polygamma functions is deduced straightforwardly.