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In this paper, we extend Hu Ke's inequality, which is a sharpness of Hölder's inequality. Moreover, the obtained results are used to improve Hao Z-C inequality and Beckenbach-type inequality that is due to Wang.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) Primary 26D15; Secondary 26D10
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1. Introduction
The classical Hölder's inequality states that if a k ≥ 0, b k ≥ 0(k = 1, 2, ..., n), p > 0, q > 0 and , then
The inequality (1) is reversed for p < 1(p ≠ 0). (For p < 0, we assume that a k , b k > 0.)
The following generalization of (1) is given in [1]:
Theorem A. (Generalized Hölder inequality). Let A nj ≥ 0, , λ j > 0 (j = 1, 2, ..., k). If , then
As is well known, Hölder's inequality plays a very important role in different branches of modern mathematics such as linear algebra, classical real and complex analysis, probability and statistics, qualitative theory of differential equations and their applications. A large number of papers dealing with refinements, generalizations and applications of inequalities (1) and (2) and their series analogues in different ares of mathematics have appeared (see e.g. [2–30] and the references therein).
Among various refinements of (1), Hu in [13] established the following interesting theorems.
Theorem B. Let p ≥ q > 0, , let a n , b n ≥ 0, , , and let 1 - e n +e m ≥ 0, ∑ n |e n |<∞. Then
The integral form is as follows:
Theorem C. Let E be a measurable set, let f(x) and g(x) be nonnegative measurable functions with ∫ E fp(x)dx < ∞, ∫ E gq(x)dx < ∞, and let e(x) be a measurable function with 1-e(x)+e(y) ≥ 0. If p ≥ q > 0, , then
The purpose of this work is to give extensions of inequalities (3) and (4) and establish their corresponding reversed versions. Moreover, the obtained results will be applied to improve Hao Z-C inequality [31] and Beckenbach-type inequality that is due to Wang [32]. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present extensions of (3) and (4) and establish their corresponding reversed versions. In Section 3, we apply the obtained results to improve Hao Z-C inequality and Beckenbach-type inequality that is due to Wang. Consequently, we obtain the refinement of arithmetic-geometric mean inequality. Finally, a brief summary is given in Section 4.
2. Extension of Hu Ke's Inequality
We begin this section with two lemmas, which will be used in the sequel.
Lemma 2.1. (e.g. [16], p. 12). Let A kj > 0 (j = 1, 2, ..., m, k = 1, 2, ..., n), . If λ1 > 0, λ j < 0 (j = 2, 3, ..., m), then
Lemma 2.2. [9] If x > -1, α > 1 or α < 0, then
The inequality is reversed for 0 < α < 1.
Next, we give an extension of Hu Ke's inequality, as follows.
Theorem 2.3. Let A nj ≥ 0, (j = 1, 2, ..., k), λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ ··· ≥ λ k > 0, , and let 1-e n + e m ≥ 0, ∑ n |e n |<∞. If k is even, then
If k is odd, then
The integral form is as follows:
Theorem 2.4. Let λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ ··· ≥ λ k > 0, , let E be a measurable set, F j (x) be nonnegative measurable functions with , and let e(x) be a measurable function with 1-e(x) + e(y) ≥ 0. If k is even, then
If k is odd, then
Proof. We need to prove only Theorem 2.3. The proof of Theorem 2.4 is similar. A simple calculation gives
Case (I). When k is even, by the inequality (2), we have
Consequently, according to , by using the inequality (2) on the right side of (12), we observe that
Combining inequalities (11) and (13) leads to inequality (7) immediately.
Case (II). When k is odd, by the same method as in the above case (I), we have the inequality (8). The proof of Theorem 2.3 is complete. □
To illustrate the significance of the introduction of the sequence , let us sketch an example as follows.
Example 2.5. Let , j = 1, 2, ..., 2N, n = 1, 2, ..., 2N, N ≥ 2, let , and let . Then from the generalized Hölder inequality (2), we obtain . However, from Theorem 2.3, we obtain 0 ≤ 0.
Corollary 2.6. Let A nj , λ j , e n be as in Theorem 2.3, and let . Then, the following inequality holds:
where .
Corollary 2.7. Let F j (x), λ j , e(x) be as in Theorem 2.4, and let . Then, the following inequality holds:
where .
Proof. We need to prove only Corollary 2.6. The proof of Corollary 2.7 is similar. From inequalities (7) and (8), we obtain
Furthermore, performing some simple computations, we have
Consequently, from Lemma 2.2 and the inequalities (16) and (17), we have the desired inequality (14). The proof of Corollary 2.6 is complete. □
It is clear that inequalities (7), (14) and (16) are sharper than the inequality (2).
Now, we present the following reversed versions of inequalities (7), (8), (9) and (10).
Theorem 2.8. Let A rj > 0, (r = 1, 2, ..., n, j = 1, 2, ..., m), , and let 1-e r + e s ≥ 0 (s = 1, 2, ..., n). If λ1 > 0, λ j < 0 (j = 2, 3, ..., m), then
The integral form is as follows:
Theorem 2.9. Let F j (x) be nonnegative integrable functions on [a, b] such that exist, let 1-e(x) + e(y) ≥ 0 for all x, y ∈ [a, b], and , and let . If λ1 > 0, λ j < 0 (j = 2, 3, ..., m), then
Proof. We need to prove only Theorem 2.8. The proof of Theorem 2.9 is similar. By the inequality (5), we have
Consequently, according to , by using the inequality (5) on the right side of (20), we observe that
Combining inequalities (11) and (21) leads to inequality (18) immediately. The proof of Theorem 2.8 is complete. □
Corollary 2.10. Let A rj , λ j , e r be as in Theorem 2.8, and let . Then
Corollary 2.11. Let F j (x), λ j , e(x) be as in Theorem 2.9, and let . Then
Proof. Making similar arguments as in the proof of Corollary 2.6, we have the desired inequalities (22) and (23). □
It is clear that inequalities (18) and (22) are sharper than the generalized Hölder inequality (5).
Now, we give here some direct consequences from Theorem 2.8 and Theorem 2.9. Putting m = 2 in (18) and (19), respectively, we obtain the following corollaries.
Corollary 2.12. Let Ar 1, Ar 2, λ1, λ2, e r be as in Theorem 2.8. Then, the following reversed version of Hu Ke's inequality (3) holds:
Corollary 2.13. Let F1(x), F2(x), λ1, λ2, e(x) be as in Theorem 2.9. Then, the following reversed version of Hu Ke's inequality (4) holds:
Example 2.14. Putting in (23), we obtain
where λ1 > 0, λ j < 0 (j = 2, 3, ..., m), .
3. Applications
In this section, we show some applications of our new inequalities. Firstly, we provide an application of the obtained results to improve Hao Z-C inequality, which is related to the generalized arithmetic-geometric mean inequality with weights. The generalized arithmetic-geometric mean inequality (e.g. [9]) states that if a j > 0, λ j > 0(j = 1, 2, ..., k), p > 0 and , then
The classical arithmetic-geometric mean inequality is one of the most important inequalities in analysis. This classical inequality has been widely studied by many authors, and it has motivated a large number of research papers involving different proofs, various generalizations and improvements (see e.g. [1, 9, 12, 19, 33] and references therein). In the year 1990, Hao Z-C in [31] established the following interesting inequality
where a j > 0, λ j > 0(j = 1, 2, ..., k), p > 0 and . The above Hao Z-C inequality is refined by using Corollary 2.7 as follows:
Theorem 3.1. Let a j > 0(j = 1, 2, ..., k), p > 0, let λ1 ≥ λ2 ≥ ··· ≥ λ k > 0, , and let 1-e(x) + e(y) ≥ 0, . Then
where ,
Proof. For x ≥ 0, with a substitution a j → x + a j in (27), we have
Now, integrating both sides of (30) from 0 to ∞, we observe that
On the other hand, applying the inequality (15), we obtain
Combining inequalities (32) and (31) yields inequality (29) immediately. The proof of Theorem 3.1 is complete. □
From Theorem 3.1, we have the following Corollary.
Corollary 3.2. With notation as in Theorem 3.1, we have
It is clear that inequality (33) is sharper than the inequality (27).
Now, we give a sharpness of Beckenbach-type inequality from Corollary 2.10. The famous Beckenbach inequality [8] has been generalized and extended in several directions; see, e.g., [16]. In 1983, Wang [32] established the following Beckenbach-type inequality.
Theorem D. Let f(x), g(x) be positive integrable functions defined on [0, T], and let . If 0<p < 1, then, for any positive numbers a, b, c, the inequality
holds, where . The sign of the inequality in (34) is reversed if p > 1.
Theorem 3.3. Let f(x), g(x), e(x) be integrable functions defined on [0, T], let f(x), g(x) > 0, 1 - e(x) + e(y) ≥ 0 for all x, y ∈ [0, T], and let . If 0 < p < 1, then, for any positive numbers a, b, c, the inequality
holds, where .
Proof. Performing some simple computations, we have
On the other hand, putting e1 = 0, e2 = 1, m = 2 in (22), from Corollary 2.10 we obtain
that is
Combining inequalities (36) and (38) yields inequality (35). The proof of Theorem 3.3 is complete. □
4. Conclusions
The classical Hölder's inequality plays a very important role in both theory and applications. In this paper, we have presented an extension of Hu Ke's inequality, which is a sharp Hölder's inequality, and established their corresponding reversed versions. Moreover, we have improved Hao Z-C inequality and Beckenbach-type inequality by using the obtained results. Finally, we have obtained the refinement of arithmetic-geometric mean inequality. We think that our results will be useful for those areas in which inequalities (2) and (5) play a role. In the future research, we will continue to explore other applications of the obtained inequalities.
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The author would like to express his sincere thanks to the anonymous referees for their making great efforts to improve this paper. This work was supported by the NNSF of China (Grant No. 61073121), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 11ML65).
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Tian, JF. Extension of Hu Ke's inequality and its applications. J Inequal Appl 2011, 77 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2011-77
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