Complete monotonicity of a function involving the $p$-psi function and alternative proofs

Valmir Krasniqi, Feng Qi

Published 2011-05-25, updated 2011-12-28Version 2

In the paper the authors alternatively prove that the function $x^\alpha\big[\ln\frac{px}{x+p+1}-\psi_p(x)\big]$ is completely monotonic on $(0,\infty)$ if and only if $\alpha \le 1$, where $p\in\mathbb{N}$ and $\psi_p(x)$ is the $p$-analogue of the classical psi function $\psi(x)$. This generalizes a known result.