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Pseudogamma Function
In mathematics, a pseudogamma function is a function (mathematics), function that interpolates the factorial. The gamma function is the most famous solution to the problem of extending the notion of the factorial beyond the positive integers only. However, it is clearly not the only solution, as, for any set of points, an infinite number of curves can be drawn through those points. Such a curve, namely one which interpolates the factorial but is not equal to the gamma function, is known as a pseudogamma function. The two most famous pseudogamma functions are Hadamard's gamma function, H(x)=\frac = \frac where \Phi is the Lerch zeta function, and the Luschny factorial: \Gamma(x+1)\left(1-\frac\left(\frac\left(\psi\left(\frac\right)-\psi\left(\frac\right)\right)-\frac\right)\right) where denotes the classical gamma function and denotes the digamma function. Other related pseudogamma functions are also known. However, by adding conditions to the function interpolating the factor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), Mathematical analysis, analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of mathematical object, abstract objects that consist of either abstraction (mathematics), abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to proof (mathematics), prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Function (mathematics)
In mathematics, a function from a set (mathematics), set to a set assigns to each element of exactly one element of .; the words ''map'', ''mapping'', ''transformation'', ''correspondence'', and ''operator'' are sometimes used synonymously. The set is called the Domain of a function, domain of the function and the set is called the codomain of the function. Functions were originally the idealization of how a varying quantity depends on another quantity. For example, the position of a planet is a ''function'' of time. History of the function concept, Historically, the concept was elaborated with the infinitesimal calculus at the end of the 17th century, and, until the 19th century, the functions that were considered were differentiable function, differentiable (that is, they had a high degree of regularity). The concept of a function was formalized at the end of the 19th century in terms of set theory, and this greatly increased the possible applications of the concept. A f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Factorial
In mathematics, the factorial of a non-negative denoted is the Product (mathematics), product of all positive integers less than or equal The factorial also equals the product of n with the next smaller factorial: \begin n! &= n \times (n-1) \times (n-2) \times (n-3) \times \cdots \times 3 \times 2 \times 1 \\ &= n\times(n-1)!\\ \end For example, 5! = 5\times 4! = 5 \times 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1 = 120. The value of 0! is 1, according to the convention for an empty product. Factorials have been discovered in several ancient cultures, notably in Indian mathematics in the canonical works of Jain literature, and by Jewish mystics in the Talmudic book ''Sefer Yetzirah''. The factorial operation is encountered in many areas of mathematics, notably in combinatorics, where its most basic use counts the possible distinct sequences – the permutations – of n distinct objects: there In mathematical analysis, factorials are used in power series for the ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamma Function
In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by Γ, capital Greek alphabet, Greek letter gamma) is the most common extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. Derived by Daniel Bernoulli, the gamma function \Gamma(z) is defined for all complex numbers z except non-positive integers, and for every positive integer z=n, \Gamma(n) = (n-1)!\,.The gamma function can be defined via a convergent improper integral for complex numbers with positive real part: \Gamma(z) = \int_0^\infty t^ e^\textt, \ \qquad \Re(z) > 0\,.The gamma function then is defined in the complex plane as the analytic continuation of this integral function: it is a meromorphic function which is holomorphic function, holomorphic except at zero and the negative integers, where it has simple Zeros and poles, poles. The gamma function has no zeros, so the reciprocal gamma function is an entire function. In fact, the gamma function corresponds to the Mellin transform of the negative exponential functi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadamard's Gamma Function
In mathematics, Hadamard's gamma function, named after Jacques Hadamard, is an extension of the factorial function, different from the classical gamma function (it is an instance of a pseudogamma function). This function, with its argument shifted down by 1, interpolates the factorial and extends it to real and complex numbers in a different way from Euler's gamma function. It is defined as: :H(x) = \frac\,\dfrac \left \, where denotes the classical gamma function. If is a positive integer, then: :H(n) = \Gamma(n) = (n-1)! Properties Unlike the classical gamma function, Hadamard's gamma function is an entire function, i.e., it is defined and analytic at all complex numbers. It satisfies the functional equation :H(x+1) = xH(x) + \frac, with the understanding that \tfrac is taken to be for positive integer values of . Representations Hadamard's gamma can also be expressed as :H(x)=\frac = \frac, and also as :H(x) = \Gamma(x) \left 1 + \frac \left \ \right w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lerch Zeta Function
In mathematics, the Lerch transcendent, is a special function that generalizes the Hurwitz zeta function and the polylogarithm. It is named after Czech mathematician Mathias Lerch, who published a paper about a similar function in 1887. The Lerch transcendent, is given by: :\Phi(z, s, \alpha) = \sum_^\infty \frac . It only converges for any real number \alpha > 0, where , z, 1, and , z, = 1. Special cases The Lerch transcendent is related to and generalizes various special functions. The Lerch zeta function is given by: :L(\lambda, s, \alpha) = \sum_^\infty \frac =\Phi(e^, s,\alpha) The Hurwitz zeta function is the special case :\zeta(s,\alpha) = \sum_^\infty \frac = \Phi(1,s,\alpha) The polylogarithm is another special case: :\textrm_s(z) = \sum_^\infty \frac =z\Phi(z,s,1) The Riemann zeta function is a special case of both of the above: :\zeta(s) =\sum_^\infty \frac = \Phi(1,s,1) The Dirichlet eta function: :\eta(s) = \sum_^\infty \frac = \Phi(-1,s,1) The Diric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digamma Function
In mathematics, the digamma function is defined as the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function: :\psi(z) = \frac\ln\Gamma(z) = \frac. It is the first of the polygamma functions. This function is Monotonic function, strictly increasing and Concave function, strictly concave on (0,\infty), and it Asymptotic analysis, asymptotically behaves as :\psi(z) \sim \ln - \frac, for complex numbers with large modulus (, z, \rightarrow\infty) in the Circular sector, sector , \arg z, 0. The digamma function is often denoted as \psi_0(x), \psi^(x) or (the uppercase form of the archaic Greek consonant digamma meaning Gamma, double-gamma). Gamma. Relation to harmonic numbers The gamma function obeys the equation :\Gamma(z+1)=z\Gamma(z). \, Taking the logarithm on both sides and using the functional equation property of the log-gamma function gives: :\log \Gamma(z+1)=\log(z)+\log \Gamma(z), Differentiating both sides with respect to gives: :\psi(z+1)=\psi(z)+\frac Since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logarithmic Convexity
In mathematics, a function ''f'' is logarithmically convex or superconvex if \circ f, the composition of the logarithm with ''f'', is itself a convex function. Definition Let be a convex subset of a real vector space, and let be a function taking non-negative values. Then is: * Logarithmically convex if \circ f is convex, and * Strictly logarithmically convex if \circ f is strictly convex. Here we interpret \log 0 as -\infty. Explicitly, is logarithmically convex if and only if, for all and all , the two following equivalent conditions hold: :\begin \log f(tx_1 + (1 - t)x_2) &\le t\log f(x_1) + (1 - t)\log f(x_2), \\ f(tx_1 + (1 - t)x_2) &\le f(x_1)^tf(x_2)^. \end Similarly, is strictly logarithmically convex if and only if, in the above two expressions, strict inequality holds for all . The above definition permits to be zero, but if is logarithmically convex and vanishes anywhere in , then it vanishes everywhere in the interior of . Equivalent conditions If is a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wielandt Theorem
In mathematics, the Wielandt theorem characterizes the gamma function, defined for all complex numbers z for which \mathrm\,z > 0 by :\Gamma(z)=\int_0^ t^ \mathrm e^\,\mathrm dt, as the only function f defined on the half-plane H := \ such that: * f is holomorphic on H; * f(1)=1; * f(z+1)=z\,f(z) for all z \in H and * f is bounded on the strip \. This theorem is named after the mathematician Helmut Wielandt. See also * Bohr–Mollerup theorem * Hadamard's gamma function References * {{cite journal, author=Reinhold Remmert, title=Wielandt's theorem about the {{math, Γ-function, journal=American Mathematical Monthly ''The American Mathematical Monthly'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics. It was established by Benjamin Finkel in 1894 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America. It is an exposi ..., volume=103, year=1996, pages=214–220, jstor=2975370. Gamma and related functions Theorems in complex ana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Functions And Mappings
In mathematics, a map or mapping is a function in its general sense. These terms may have originated as from the process of making a geographical map: ''mapping'' the Earth surface to a sheet of paper. The term ''map'' may be used to distinguish some special types of functions, such as homomorphisms. For example, a linear map is a homomorphism of vector spaces, while the term linear function may have this meaning or it may mean a linear polynomial. In category theory, a map may refer to a morphism. The term ''transformation'' can be used interchangeably, but '' transformation'' often refers to a function from a set to itself. There are also a few less common uses in logic and graph theory. Maps as functions In many branches of mathematics, the term ''map'' is used to mean a function, sometimes with a specific property of particular importance to that branch. For instance, a "map" is a "continuous function" in topology, a "linear transformation" in linear algebra, etc. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
