TWO NEW PROOFS OF THE COMPLETE MONOTONICITY OF A FUNCTION INVOLVING THE PSI FUNCTION

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the present paper, we give two new proofs for the necessary and sufficient condition α ≤ 1 such that the function xα[ln x − ψ(x)] is completely monotonic on (0,∞).

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