Logarithmically complete monotonicity of a power-exponential function involving the logarithmic and psi functions
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https://doi.org/10.14419/gjma.v3i2.4605Keywords:
Logarithmically complete monotonicity, Stieltjes function, Logarithmic function, Psi function, Power-exponential function, ConjectureAbstract
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].References
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