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In the paper, we establish some improvements of Minkowski’s inequality on time scales via the delta integral, nabla integral and diamond-α dynamic integral, which is defined as a linear combination of the delta and nabla integrals.
MSC:26D15, 26E70.
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1 Introduction
In 1988, Hilger in [1] established the theory of time scales in his doctoral dissertation, which resulted in his seminal paper in [2]. His work aimed to unify and generalize various mathematical concepts according to the theories of discrete and continuous analysis. Much information concerning time scales and dynamic equations on time scales can be found in the literature in [3–12]. Since then many authors have studied some integral inequalities on time scales in [13–16]. In [13, 14], the authors described the delta integral Minkowski’s inequality on time scales as follows.
Theorem 1.1 Let and with . Then
Nabla and diamond-α integral Minkowski’s inequality on time scales was established in [15], which can be stated as follows.
Theorem 1.2 Let and with . Then
Theorem 1.3 Let be -integrable functions, and with . Then
Throughout paper, we suppose that is a time scale, with and an interval means the intersection of a real interval with the given time scale. By a time scale , we mean an arbitrary nonempty closed subset of real numbers. The set of real numbers, integers, natural numbers, and the Cantor set are examples of time scales. But rational numbers, irrational numbers, complex numbers, and the open interval between 0 and 1 are not time scales.
The purpose of this paper is to establish some improvements of Minkowski’s inequality by using the delta integral, the nabla integral and the diamond-α integral on time scales.
2 Main results
In this section, our main results are stated and proved.
Theorem 2.1 Let , , , and . Let be different, such that and . Then
Proof We have , and in view of
by using Hölder’s inequality in [13, 14] with indices and , we have
On the other hand, by using Minkowski’s inequality (1.1) for and , respectively, we obtain
and
From (2.2), (2.3) and (2.4), this completes the proof of Theorem 2.1. □
Remark 2.1 For Theorem 2.1, for , letting , , when p, s, t are different, , and letting , we obtain (1.1).
Theorem 2.2 Let , , , and . Let be different, such that and , and . Then
Proof We have , and in view of
by using reverse Hölder’s inequality in [13, 14] with indices and , we obtain
On the other hand, in view of Minkowski’s inequality (see [17]) for the cases of and ,
and
Combining (2.6), (2.7) and (2.8), this completes the proof of Theorem 2.2. □
Theorem 2.3 Let , , , and . Let be different, such that and . Then
Proof This proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.1, so we omit it here. □
Remark 2.2 For Theorem 2.3, for , letting , , when p, s, t are different, , and letting , we get (1.2).
Theorem 2.4 Let , , , and . Let be different, such that and , and . Then
Proof The proof of Theorem 2.4 is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.2, so we omit it here. □
Theorem 2.5 Let be -integrable functions, , , and . Let be different, such that and . Then
Proof This theorem is a direct extension of Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 2.3, so we omit this proof here. □
Remark 2.3 For Theorem 2.5, for , letting , , when p, s, t are different, , and letting , we get (1.3).
Theorem 2.6 Let be -integrable functions, , , and . Let be different, such that and , and . Then
Proof This theorem is a direct extension of Theorem 2.2 and Theorem 2.4, so we omit this proof here. □
Remark 2.4 For , inequality (2.11) reduces to inequality (2.1), inequality (2.12) reduces to inequality (2.5). For , inequality (2.11) reduces to inequality (2.9), inequality (2.12) reduces to inequality (2.10). For , the main results of this paper reduce to the results in [18].
Remark 2.5 The results of this paper can be given for more general time-scale integrals, for example, Lebesgue time-scale integrals in [19] or even multiple Lebesgue time-scale integrals in [20].
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Chen, GS. Some improvements of Minkowski’s integral inequality on time scales. J Inequal Appl 2013, 318 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2013-318
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