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In this paper, we present some monotonicity rules for the ratio of two power series $x\mapsto \sum_{k=0}^\infty a_k x^k / \sum_{k=0}^\infty b_k x^k$ under the assumption that the monotonicity of the sequence ${a_k/b_k}$ changes twice. Additionally, we introduce a local monotonicity rule in this paper.

The main objective of this paper is to establish the $Y$-function and L'Hospital-type monotonicity rules with nabla and diamond-alpha derivatives on time scales.

As an efficient mathematical tool, monotonicity rules play an extremely crucial role in the real analysis field. In this paper, we explore some monotonicity rules for quotient of Delta, Nabla and Diamond-Alpha integrals with variable upper limits and parameters on time scales, respectively. Moreover, we consider the monotonicity rules for quotient of the product of multiple Delta integrals with parameters on time scales. Power series is also concerned for being a special case of integral with parameters on time scales.

In this paper, we investigate the monotonicity of the functions $t \mapsto \frac{\sum_{k=0}^\infty a_k w_k(t)}{\sum_{k=0}^\infty b_k w_k(t)}$ and $x \mapsto \frac{\int_\alpha^\beta f(t) w(t,x) \textrm{d} t}{\int_\alpha^\beta g(t) w(t,x) \textrm{d} t}$, focusing on case where the monotonicity of $a_k/b_k$ and $f(t)/g(t)$ change once. The results presented also provide insights into the monotonicity of the ratios of two power series, two $\mathcal{Z}$-transforms, two discrete Laplace transforms, two discrete Mellin transforms, two Laplace transforms, and two Mellin transforms. Finally, we employ these monotonicity rules to present several applications in the realm of special functions and stochastic orders., Comment: 15 pages

Let $f$ and $g$ be both continuous functions on $\left( 0,\infty \right) $ with $g\left( t\right) >0$ for $t\in \left( 0,\infty \right) $ and let $ F\left( x\right) =\mathcal{L}\left( f\right) $, $G\left( x\right) =\mathcal{L }\left( g\right) $ be respectively the Laplace transforms of $f$ and $g$ converging for $x>0$. We prove that if there is a $t^{\ast }\in \left( 0,\infty \right) $ such that $f/g$ is strictly increasing on $\left( 0,t^{\ast }\right) $ and strictly decreasing on $\left( t^{\ast },\infty \right) $, then the ratio $F/G$ is decreasing on $\left( 0,\infty \right) $ if and only if \begin{equation*} H_{F,G}\left( 0^{+}\right) =\lim_{x\rightarrow 0^{+}}\left( \frac{F^{\prime }\left( x\right) }{G^{\prime }\left( x\right) }G\left( x\right) -F\left( x\right) \right) \geq 0, \end{equation*} with \begin{equation*} \lim_{x\rightarrow 0^{+}}\frac{F\left( x\right) }{G\left( x\right) } =\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty }\frac{f\left( t\right) }{g\left( t\right) }\text{ \ and \ }\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty }\frac{F\left( x\right) }{G\left( x\right) }=\lim_{t\rightarrow 0^{+}}\frac{f\left( t\right) }{g\left( t\right) } \end{equation*} provide the indicated limits exist. While $H_{F,G}\left( 0^{+}\right) <0$, there is at leas one $x^{\ast }>0$ such that $F/G$ is increasing on $\left( 0,x^{\ast }\right) $ and decreasing on $\left( x^{\ast },\infty \right) $. As applications of this monotonicity rule, a unified treatment for certain bounds of psi function is presented, and some properties of the modified Bessel functions of the second are established. These show that the monotonicity rules in this paper may contribute to study for certain special functions because many special functions can be expressed as corresponding Laplace transforms., Comment: 24 pages

In this paper, we present a very accurate approximation for gamma function: \begin{equation*} \Gamma \left( x+1\right) \thicksim \sqrt{2\pi x}\left( \dfrac{x}{e}\right) ^{x}\left( x\sinh \frac{1}{x}\right) ^{x/2}\exp \left( \frac{7}{324}\frac{1}{ x^{3}\left( 35x^{2}+33\right) }\right) =W_{2}\left( x\right) \end{equation*} as $x\rightarrow \infty $, and prove that the function $x\mapsto \ln \Gamma \left( x+1\right) -\ln W_{2}\left( x\right) $ is strictly decreasing and convex from $\left( 1,\infty \right) $ onto $\left( 0,\beta \right) $, where \begin{equation*} \beta =\frac{22\,025}{22\,032}-\ln \sqrt{2\pi \sinh 1}\approx 0.00002407. \end{equation*}, Comment: 9 pages

In this paper, we develop Windschitl's approximation formula for the gamma function to two asymptotic expansions by using a little known power series. In particular, for $n\in \mathbb{N}$ with $n\geq 4$, we have \begin{equation*} \Gamma \left( x+1\right) =\sqrt{2\pi x}\left( \tfrac{x}{e}\right) ^{x}\left( x\sinh \tfrac{1}{x}\right) ^{x/2}\exp \left( \sum_{k=3}^{n-1}\tfrac{\left( 2k\left( 2k-2\right) !-2^{2k-1}\right) B_{2k}}{2k\left( 2k\right) !x^{2k-1}} +R_{n}\left( x\right) \right) \end{equation*} with \begin{equation*} \left| R_{n}\left( x\right) \right| \leq \frac{\left| B_{2n}\right| }{2n\left( 2n-1\right) }\frac{1}{x^{2n-1}} \end{equation*} for all $x>0$, where $B_{2n}$ is the Bernoulli number. Moreover, we present some approximation formulas for gamma function related to Windschitl's approximation one, which have higher accuracy., Comment: 14 pages