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Bounding the gamma function in terms of the trigonometric and exponential functions

Feng Qi, Mansour Mahmoud

Acta Sci. Math. (Szeged) 83:1-2(2017), 125-141
63/2016

Abstract. In the paper, the authors bound the gamma function, the digamma function, and the harmonic numbers in terms of the exponent of fractional functions and several trigonometric functions such as the tangent, hyperbolic tangent, secant, and cosecant functions.



DOI: 10.14232/actasm-016-813-x

AMS Subject Classification (1991): 33B15, 26A48, 26D05, 33B10

Keyword(s): bound, gamma function, digamma function, trigonometric function, fractional function, exponential function, inequality, harmonic number, monotonicity


Received November 1, 2016. (Registered under 63/2016.)