1. On the Log-Concavity of the Wright Function.
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Ferreira, Rui A. C. and Simon, Thomas
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BETA distribution , *PROBLEM solving , *ENTROPY , *LOGICAL prediction - Abstract
We investigate the log-concavity on the half-line of the Wright function ϕ (- α , β , - x) , in the probabilistic setting α ∈ (0 , 1) and β ≥ 0. Applications are given to the construction of generalized entropies associated to the corresponding Mittag-Leffler function. A natural conjecture for the equivalence between the log-concavity of the Wright function and the existence of such generalized entropies is formulated. The problem is solved for β ≥ α and in the classical case β = 1 - α of the Mittag-Leffler distribution, which exhibits a certain critical parameter α ∗ = 0.771667... defined implicitly on the Gamma function and characterizing the log-concavity. We also prove that the probabilistic Wright functions are always unimodal, and that they are multiplicatively strongly unimodal if and only if β ≥ α or α ≤ 1 / 2 and β = 0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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