Monotonicity conjecture for positive zeros of Bessel function derivatives

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For n∈N0n\in\mathbb{N}_0 and m∈Nm\in\mathbb{N}, let jν,m(n)j_{\nu,m}^{(n)} denote the mmth positive zero of the nnth derivative Jν(n)J_{\nu}^{(n)} of the Bessel function of the first kind. Monotonicity conjecture. For fixed n∈N0n\in\mathbb{N}_0 and m∈Nm\in\mathbb{N}, the map

ν⟼jν,m(n)\nu\longmapsto j_{\nu,m}^{(n)}

is increasing on (n−1,∞)(n-1,\infty). For ν>n−1\nu>n-1, the zeros of Jν(n)J_{\nu}^{(n)} are real, and the conjecture would extend known monotonicity results for n∈{0,1,2,3}n\in\{0,1,2,3\} to every nonnegative derivative order. The paper presents this as an unresolved question motivated by applications to starlikeness and close-to-convexity.

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Árpád Baricz, Chrysi G. Kokologiannaki and Tibor K. Pogány, “Zeros of Bessel function derivatives”, arXiv:1602.04295 (2016).

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