Balanced polygamma function

In mathematics, the generalized polygamma function or balanced negapolygamma function is a function introduced by Olivier Espinosa Aldunate and Victor H. Moll.^[1]

It generalizes the polygamma function to negative and fractional order, but remains equal to it for integer positive orders.

Definition

The generalized polygamma function is defined as follows:

\psi (z,q)={\frac {\zeta '(z+1,q)+{\big (}\psi (-z)+\gamma {\big )}\zeta (z+1,q)}{\Gamma (-z)}}

or alternatively,

\psi (z,q)=e^{-\gamma z}{\frac {\partial }{\partial z}}\left(e^{\gamma z}{\frac {\zeta (z+1,q)}{\Gamma (-z)}}\right),

where $ψ (z)$ is the Polygamma function and $ζ (z, q)$ , is the Hurwitz zeta function.

The function is balanced, in that it satisfies the conditions

f(0)=f(1)\quad {\text{and}}\quad \int _{0}^{1}f(x)\,dx=0

.

Relations

Several special functions can be expressed in terms of generalized polygamma function.

{\begin{aligned}\psi (x)&=\psi (0,x)\\[8px]\psi ^{(n)}(x)&=\psi (n,x)\qquad n\in \mathbb {N} \\[8px]\Gamma (x)&=\exp \left(\psi (-1,x)+{\tfrac {1}{2}}\ln 2\pi \right)\\[8px]\zeta (z,q)&={\frac {\Gamma (1-z)}{\ln 2}}\left(2^{-z}\psi \left(z-1,{\frac {q+1}{2}}\right)+2^{-z}\psi \left(z-1,{\frac {q}{2}}\right)-\psi (z-1,q)\right)\\[8px]\zeta '(-1,x)&=\psi (-2,x)+{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}-{\frac {x}{2}}+{\frac {1}{12}}\\[8px]B_{n}(q)&=-{\frac {\Gamma (n+1)}{\ln 2}}\left(2^{n-1}\psi \left(-n,{\frac {q+1}{2}}\right)+2^{n-1}\psi \left(-n,{\frac {q}{2}}\right)-\psi (-n,q)\right)\end{aligned}}

where $B n (q)$ are Bernoulli polynomials

K(z)=A\exp \left(\psi (-2,z)+{\frac {z^{2}-z}{2}}\right)

where $K (z)$ is the $K$ -function and $A$ is the Glaisher constant.

Special values

The balanced polygamma function can be expressed in a closed form at certain points (where $A$ is the Glaisher constant and $G$ is the Catalan constant):

{\begin{aligned}\psi \left(-2,{\tfrac {1}{4}}\right)&={\tfrac {1}{8}}\ln 2\pi +{\tfrac {9}{8}}\ln A+{\frac {G}{4\pi }}&&\\[8px]\psi \left(-2,{\tfrac {1}{2}}\right)&={\tfrac {1}{4}}\ln \pi +{\tfrac {3}{2}}\ln A+{\tfrac {5}{24}}\ln 2&\psi \left(-3,{\tfrac {1}{2}}\right)&={\tfrac {1}{16}}\ln 2\pi +{\tfrac {1}{2}}\ln A+{\frac {7\zeta (3)}{32\pi ^{2}}}\\[8px]\psi (-2,1)&={\tfrac {1}{2}}\ln 2\pi &\psi (-3,1)&={\tfrac {1}{4}}\ln 2\pi +\ln A\\[8px]\psi (-2,2)&=\ln 2\pi -1&\psi (-3,2)&=\ln 2\pi +2\ln A-{\tfrac {3}{4}}\end{aligned}}

References

↑ Espinosa, Olivier; Moll, Victor H. (Apr 2004). "A Generalized polygamma function" (PDF). Integral Transforms and Special Functions. 15 (2): 101–115.

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[1] Espinosa, Olivier; Moll, Victor H. (Apr 2004). "A Generalized polygamma function" (PDF). Integral Transforms and Special Functions. 15 (2): 101–115.