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Convexity Properties of Special Functions and Their Zeros

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Recent Progress in Inequalities

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Convexity properties axe often useful in characterising and finding bounds for special function and their zeros, as well as in questions concerning the existence and uniqueness of zeros in certain intervals. In this survey paper, we describe some work related to the gamma function, the q-gamma function, Bessel and cylinder functions and the Hermite function.

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Muldoon, M.E. (1998). Convexity Properties of Special Functions and Their Zeros. In: Milovanović, G.V. (eds) Recent Progress in Inequalities. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 430. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9086-0_17

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