2005Proceedings of the American Mathematical SocietyOpen access

Completely monotonic functions involving the gamma and $q$-gamma functions

Arcadii Z. Grinshpan, Mourad E. H. Ismail

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We give an infinite family of functions involving the gamma function whose logarithmic derivatives are completely monotonic. Each such function gives rise to an infinitely divisible probability distribution. Other similar results are also obtained for specific combinations of the gamma and $q$-gamma functions.

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We give an infinite family of functions involving the gamma function whose logarithmic derivatives are completely monotonic. Each such function gives rise to an infinitely divisible probability distribution. Other similar results are also obtained for specific combinations of the gamma and $q$-gamma functions.

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We give an infinite family of functions involving the gamma function whose logarithmic derivatives are completely monotonic. Each such function gives rise to an infinitely divisible probability distribution. Other similar results are also obtained for specific combinations of the gamma and $q$-gamma functions.

Key concepts: Monotonic function, Gamma function, Generalized gamma distribution, Gamma distribution, Mathematics, Logarithm, Inverse-gamma distribution, Pure mathematics

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