Completely monotonicity of class functions involving the polygamma and related functions

Abstract

In this paper, the authors prove some inequalities and completely monotonic properties of polygamma functions. As an application, we give lower bound for the zeta function on natural numbers. Partially, we answer the fifth and sixth open problems listed in [F. Qi and R. P. Agarwal, On complete monotonicity for several classes of functions related to ratios of gamma functions, J. Inequalities Appl. 2019(36) (2019) 42]. We propose two open problems on completely monotonic functions related to polygamma functions.