Define a function for by
- Prove that
is strictly increasing on the nonnegative real axis.
- If
denotes the inverse of
prove that
is proportional to
and find the constant of proportionality.
- Proof. To show
is strictly increasing we take the derivative,
Since
for all
we have that
is strictly increasing on the nonnegative real axis
- Proof. If
is the inverse of
then we know (Theorem 6.7 on page 252 of Apostol)
But, we have defined
to the function such that
. Therefore,
Therefore, we have that
Taking another derivative of
with respect to
we then have