The best bounds in Wallis’ inequality

Chen, Chao-Ping; Qi, Feng

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07499-4

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The best bounds in Wallis' inequality

Authors: Chao-Ping Chen and Feng Qi
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 397-401
MSC (2000): Primary 05A10, 26D20; Secondary 33B15
Posted: August 30, 2004
MathSciNet review: 2093060
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Abstract: For all natural numbers , let denote a double factorial. Then

$\begin{displaymath}\frac1{\sqrt{\pi\bigl(n+\frac4{\pi}-1\bigr)}}\leq \frac{(2n-1)!!}{(2n)!!}<\frac1{\sqrt{\pi\bigl(n+\frac14\bigr)}}. \end{displaymath}$

The constants $\frac{4}{\pi}-1$ and $\frac14$ are the best possible. From this, the well-known Wallis' inequality is improved.

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Chao-Ping Chen
Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Research Institute of Applied Mathematics, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo City, Henan 454000, People’s Republic of China
Email: chenchaoping@hpu.edu.cn

Feng Qi
Affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Research Institute of Applied Mathematics, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo City, Henan 454000, People’s Republic of China
Email: qifeng@hpu.edu.cn, fengqi618@member.ams.org

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07499-4
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07499-4
Keywords: Wallis' inequality, best bound, gamma function, monotonicity
Received by editor(s): August 3, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 23, 2003, and September 27, 2003
Posted: August 30, 2004
Additional Notes: The authors were supported in part by NSF (#10001016) of China, SF for the Prominent Youth of Henan Province (#0112000200), SF of Henan Innovation Talents at Universities, NSF of Henan Province (#004051800), Doctor Fund of Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, China
Communicated by: Carmen C. Chicone
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