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Dear colleagues, I recently met some problems related to the modified Bessel funtions of the first kind and the second kind. I want to know if there exist some results on the monotonicity of $\frac{I_\alpha^{'}(x)}{I_\alpha(x)}$ and $\frac{K_\alpha^{'}(x)}{K_\alpha(x)}$ with respect to $\alpha$. That is to say, I want the result that $\frac{I_{\alpha+\nu}^{'}(x)}{I_{\alpha+\nu}(x)}>\frac{I_\alpha^{'}(x)}{I_\alpha(x)}$ with any $\nu>0$ (I guess the result should be like this). For another part, $\frac{K_\alpha^{'}(x)}{K_\alpha(x)}$ should be decrease monotonicaly with respect to the order $\alpha$.

Thank you in advance!

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So you're asking if $I_\alpha(z)$ is log-convex in $\alpha$. – Stopple Feb 3 2011 at 16:15
to Stopple, what you said is exactly right. Do you have some advices? – unknown (google) Feb 3 2011 at 16:27
No, I've just been thinking about log-convexity recently. A quick plot in Mathematica (with $x=1$) makes you conjecture seem plausible. – Stopple Feb 3 2011 at 16:56
A google search on 'log convexity of bessel function' turns up a lot of hits. – Stopple Feb 4 2011 at 18:25
I don't think so. I have tried google search on keywords like that, but google can't give the results that I want. Fortunatly, I think I have proved the result, if you are interested in it, I can upload it when I finish to write it. – unknown (google) Feb 8 2011 at 10:07

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