Hadamard's gamma function

This function, with its argument shifted down by 1, interpolates the factorial and extends it to real and complex numbers in a different way than Euler's gamma function.

It is defined as: where Γ(x) denotes the classical gamma function.

If n is a positive integer, then: Unlike the classical gamma function, Hadamard's gamma function H(x) is an entire function, i.e. it has no poles in its domain.

It satisfies the functional equation with the understanding that

is taken to be 0 for positive integer values of x. Hadamard's gamma can also be expressed as where

Hadamard's gamma function plotted over part of the real axis. Unlike the classical gamma function, it is holomorphic; there are no poles.