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On the functional equations of the q-Gamma function

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In this paper, we present some characterizations of the q-gamma function by some functional equations using E. Artin’s technique.

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    Mansour Mahmoud

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Mahmoud, M. On the functional equations of the q-Gamma function. Aequat. Math. 89, 1041–1050 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-014-0291-5

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