Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions

Jean-Luc Marichal is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg. He completed his PhD in Mathematics in 1998 at the University of Liège (Belgium) and has published about 100 journal papers on aggregation function theory, functional equations, non-additive measures and integrals, conjoint measurement theory, cooperative game theory, and system reliability theory.Naïm Zenaïdi is a Senior Teaching and Outreach Assistant in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Liège (Belgium). He completed his PhD in Mathematics in 2013 at the University of Brussels (ULB, Belgium) in the field of differential geometry.

• Preface.- List of main symbols.- Table of contents.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Preliminaries.- Chapter 3. Uniqueness and existence results.- Chapter 4. Interpretations of the asymptotic conditions.- Chapter 5. Multiple log-gamma type functions.- Chapter 6. Asymptotic analysis.- Chapter 7. Derivatives of multiple log-gamma type functions.- Chapter 8. Further results.- Chapter 9. Summary of the main results.- Chapter 10. Applications to some standard special functions.- Chapter 11. Definining new log-gamma type functions.- Chapter 12. Further examples.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.- A. Higher order convexity properties.- B. On Krull-Webster's asymptotic condition.- C. On a question raised by Webster.- D. Asymptotic behaviors and bracketing.- E. Generalized Webster's inequality.- F. On the differentiability of \sigma_g.- Bibliography.- Analogues of properties of the gamma function.- Index.