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Monotonicity Properties of the Hurwitz Zeta Function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Horst Alzer
Horst Alzer*
Affiliation:
Morsbacher Str. 10, D-51545 Waldbröl, Germany e-mail: alzerhorst@freenet.de
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Abstract

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Let

$$\zeta \left( s,x \right)=\sum\limits_{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac{1}{{{\left( n+x \right)}^{s}}}}\left( s>1,x>0 \right)$$

be the Hurwitz zeta function and let

$$Q\left( x \right)=Q\left( x;\alpha ,\beta ;a,b \right)=\frac{{{\left( \zeta \left( \alpha ,x \right) \right)}^{a}}}{{{\left( \zeta \left( \beta ,x \right) \right)}^{{{b}'}}}}$$

where $\alpha ,\beta >1$ and $a,b>0$ are real numbers. We prove: (i) The function $Q$ is decreasing on $\left( 0,\infty \right)$ iff $\alpha a-\beta b\ge \max \left( a-b,0 \right)$. (ii) $Q$ is increasing on $\left( 0,\infty \right)$ iff $\alpha a-\beta b\le \min \left( a-b,0 \right)$. An application of part (i) reveals that for all $x>0$ the function $s\mapsto {{\left[ \left( s-1 \right)\zeta \left( s,x \right) \right]}^{1/\left( s-1 \right)}}$ is decreasing on $\left( 1,\infty \right)$. This settles a conjecture of Bastien and Rogalski.

Keywords

11M3526D15
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2005 , pp. 333 - 339
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2005

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