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The shape of the Borwein-Affleck-Girgensohn function generated by completely monotone and Bernstein functions. (English) Zbl 1322.90067

The authors further explore the shape of the Borwein-Affleck-Girgensohn function as well as of its extensions generated by completely monotone and Bernstein functions.

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90C25 Convex programming
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