Complete monotonicity of some functions involving polygamma functions

Abstract

In the present paper, we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the functions $x^α\bigl\lvertψ^{(i)}(x+β)\bigr\lvert$ and $α\bigl\lvertψ^{(i)}(x+β)\bigr\lvert-x\bigl\lvertψ^{(i+1)}(x+β)\bigr\lvert$ respectively to be monotonic and completely monotonic on $(0,\infty)$, where $i\in\mathbb{N}$, $α>0$ and $β\ge0$ are scalars, and $ψ^{(i)}(x)$ are polygamma functions.

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