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We generalize several monotonicity and convexity properties as well as sharp inequalities for the complete elliptic integrals to the complete p-elliptic integrals.
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1 Introduction
Let \(p>1\) and \(0\leq\theta\leq 1\). Then the function \(\sin_{p}^{-1}(\theta)\) and the number \(\pi_{p}\) are defined by
and
respectively, where B is the classical beta function. The inverse function of \(\sin_{p}^{-1}(\theta)\) defined on \([0, \pi_{p}/2]\) is said to be the generalized sine function and denoted by \(\sin_{p}\). From (1.1) and (1.2) we clearly see that \(\sin_{2}(\theta)=\sin(\theta)\) and \(\pi_{2}=\pi\). The generalized sine function \(\sin_{p}(\theta)\) and \(\pi_{p}\) appeared in the eigenvalue problem of one-dimensional p-Laplacian
Indeed, the eigenvalues are given by \(\lambda_{n}=(p-1) (n\pi_{p})^{p}\) and the corresponding eigenfunction to \(\lambda_{n}\) is \(u(x)=\sin_{p}(n\pi_{n}x)\) for each \(n=1, 2, 3,\ldots \) . In the same way one can define the generalized cosine and tangent functions and their inverse functions [1–3].
Let \(x\in (-1,1)\), and a, b and c be the real numbers with \(c\neq 0,-1,-2,\ldots \) . Then the Gaussian hypergeometric function \(F(a, b; c; x)\) [4–11] is defined by
where \((a,n)\) denotes the shifted factorial function \((a,n)=a(a+1)\cdots (a+n-1)\), \(n=1,2,\ldots \) , and \((a,0)=1\) for \(a\neq 0\). The well-known complete elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}(r)\) [12–15] of the first and second kinds are respectively defined by
and
Let \(p\in (1,\infty)\) and \(r\in [0,1)\). Then the complete p-elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}_{p}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}_{p}(r)\) [16, 17] of the first and second kinds are respectively defined by
and
From (1.4) and (1.5) we clearly see that the complete p-elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}_{p}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}_{p}(r)\) respectively reduce to the complete elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}(r)\) if \(p=2\). Recently, the complete p-elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}_{p}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}_{p}(r)\) and their special cases \(\mathcal{K}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}(r)\) have attracted the attention of many mathematicians [18–30].
Takeuchi [31] generalized several well-known theorems for the complete elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}(r)\), such as Legendre’s formula, Gaussian’s \(AGM\) approximation formulas for π, differential equations, and other similar results of the theory of complete elliptic integrals to the complete p-elliptic integrals \(\mathcal{K}_{p}(r)\) and \(\mathcal{E}_{p}(r)\), and proved that
Anderson, Qiu, and Vamanamurthy [32] discussed the monotonicity and convexity properties of the function
and proved that the double inequality
holds for all \(r\in (0,1)\). Both inequalities given in (1.8) are sharp as \(r\rightarrow 0\), while the second inequality is also sharp as \(r\rightarrow 1\). Here and in what follows, we denote \(r'=(1-r^{p})^{1/p}\), \(\mathcal{K}_{p}'(r)=\mathcal{K}_{p}(r')\), and \(\mathcal{E}_{p}'(r)=\mathcal{E}_{p}(r')\).
Alzer and Richards [33] proved that the function
is strictly increasing and convex from \((0,1)\) onto \((\pi/4-1,1-\pi/4)\), and the double inequality
holds for all \(r\in (0,1)\) with the best constant \(\alpha=0\) and \(\beta=2-\pi/2\).
Inequalities (1.8) and (1.9) have been generalized to the generalized elliptic integrals by Huang et al. in [34].
The main purpose of the article is to generalize inequalities (1.8) and (1.9) to the complete p-elliptic integrals. We discuss the monotonicity and convexity properties of the functions
and present their corresponding sharp inequalities.
2 Lemmas
In order to prove our main results, we need several formulas and lemmas, which we present in this section.
The following formulas for the hypergeometric function and complete p-elliptic integrals can be found in the literature [5, 1.20(10), (1.16), 1.19(4), (1.48)]], [18], and [35, Equation (26)]:
where \(\Gamma(x)\) is the classical gamma function.
Lemma 2.1
Let \(p \in(1,\infty)\). Then the function
is strictly increasing and convex from \((0, 1)\) onto \(((p-1){\pi_{p}}/(2p), 1)\).
Proof
It follows from (1.3), (1.6), and (1.7) that
where \(a_{n}=(1/p,n)(1-1/p,n)(n!)^{-2}\). Therefore,
and \(f_{p}^{1}(r)\) is strictly increasing and convex on \((0, 1)\) due to \(1-1/p>0\).
From (1.5), (1.6), (2.4), (2.7), and (2.8) we clearly see that
□
Lemma 2.2
(see [18, Lemma 2.3])
Let \(I\subset \mathbb{R}\) be an interval and \(f, g: I\rightarrow (0,\infty)\) be two positive real-valued functions. Then the product fg is convex on I if both f and g are convex and increasing (decreasing) on I.
Lemma 2.3
Let \(p>1\). Then the function
is strictly increasing from \((0,1)\) onto \((-\infty,0)\).
Proof
Let
Then it follows from (1.3), (1.6), (1.7), (2.9), and (2.10) that
Equations (2.11) and (2.12) lead to
It is easy to verify that
for \(p>1\) and \(n\geq 2\).
Therefore, the monotonicity of \(J(r)\) on the interval \((0, 1)\) follows easily from (2.13) and (2.14).
From (2.3), (2.4), (2.10), (2.11), and (2.13) we clearly see that \(J(0^{+})=-\infty\) and
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Lemma 2.4
(see [5, Theorem 1.25])
Let \(a, b\in \mathbb{R}\) with \(a< b\), \(f,g: [a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be continuous on \([a, b]\) and be differentiable on \((a, b)\) such that \(g'(x) \neq 0\) on \((a, b)\). If \(f'(x)/g'(x)\) is increasing (decreasing) on \((a, b)\), then so are the functions
If \(f'(x)/g'(x)\) is strictly monotone, then the monotonicity in the conclusion is also strict.
3 Main results
Theorem 3.1
Let \(p>1\) and \(f_{p}(r)\) be defined by (1.10). Then \(f_{p}(r)\) is strictly increasing and convex from \((0,1)\) onto \(((p-1)\pi_{p}/(2p), 2p/[(p-1)\pi_{p}])\), and the double inequality
holds for all \(r\in(0,1)\) if and only if \(\alpha\leq 0\) and \(\beta\geq 2p/[(p-1)\pi_{p}]-(p-1)\pi_{p}/(2p)\). Moreover, both inequalities in (3.1) are sharp as \(r\rightarrow 0\), while the second inequality is sharp as \(r\rightarrow 1\).
Proof
Let \(f^{1}_{p}(r)\) be defined by (2.7). Then \(f_{p}(r)\) can be rewritten as
From Lemma 2.1 we know that both the functions \(f_{p}^{1}(r)\) and \(1/f^{1}_{p}(r')\) are positive and strictly increasing on \((0,1)\), hence \(f_{p}(r)\) is also strictly increasing on \((0,1)\).
Next, we prove that \(1/f^{1}_{a}(r')\) is convex on \((0,1)\). It follows from (2.6) and (2.7) that
where
where \(J(r)\) is defined by (2.9).
From (1.3), (1.6), (1.7), and Lemma 2.1 we clearly see that
Equations (3.3)–(3.5) and Lemmas 2.3 and 2.4 lead to the conclusion that the function \(\frac{d}{dr} (1/f_{p}^{1}(r) )\) is strictly decreasing on \((0, 1)\), which implies that the function \(\frac{d}{dr} (1/f_{p}^{1}(r') )\) is strictly increasing on \((0, 1)\) and \(1/f^{1}_{a}(r')\) is convex on \((0,1)\).
Therefore, \(f_{p}(r)\) is convex on \((0, 1)\) follows from Lemmas 2.1 and 2.2 together with (3.2) and the convexity of \(1/f^{1}_{a}(r')\).
The limit values
follow easily from Lemma 2.1 and (3.2).
It follows from (2.8) and (3.2) that
Therefore, inequality (3.1) holds for all \(r\in(0,1)\) if and only if \(\alpha\leq 0\), and \(\beta\geq 2p/[(p-1)\pi_{p}]-((p-1)\pi_{p}/(2p)\) follows easily from (3.6) and (3.7) together with the monotonicity and convexity of \(f_{p}(r)\) on \((0, 1)\). From (3.6) we clearly see that both inequalities in (3.1) are sharp as \(r\rightarrow 0\) and the second inequality is sharp as \(r\rightarrow 1\). □
Theorem 3.2
Let \(p\geq 2\) and \(g_{p}(r)\) be defined in (1.11). Then \(g_{p}(r)\) is strictly increasing and convex from \((0,1)\) onto \(((p-1)\pi_{p}/(2p)-1, 1-(p-1)\pi_{p}/(2p))\), and the double inequality
holds for all \(r \in (0, 1)\) if and only if \(\alpha\leq 0\) and \(\beta\geq 2-(p-1)\pi_{p}/p\). Moreover, both inequalities in (3.8) are sharp as \(r\rightarrow 0\), while the second inequality is sharp as \(r\rightarrow 1\).
Proof
Let
Then from (1.3), (1.6), (1.7), and (1.11) we get
It follows from (2.1), (2.2), (2.5), and (3.10) that
Equations (1.3) and (3.12)–(3.14) lead to
for \(p\geq 2\).
Therefore, the monotonicity and convexity for \(g_{p}(r)\) on the interval \((0, 1)\) follow from (3.11) and (3.15).
It follows from (1.2), (1.3), (2.3), (3.9), and (3.10) that
Therefore, the desired results in Theorem 3.2 follow easily from (3.11) and (3.16) together with the monotonicity and convexity of \(g_{p}(r)\) on the interval \((0, 1)\). □
Remark 3.3
Let \(p=2\). Then we clearly see that inequalities (3.1) and (3.8) reduce to inequalities (1.8) and (1.9), respectively.
Corollary 3.4
Let \(p\geq 2\), \(g_{p}(r)\) be defined by (1.11) and
Then the double inequality
holds for all \(x,y\in (0,1)\).
Proof
It follows from (3.17) and the proof of Theorem 3.2 that
for all \(x, y\in (0, 1)\).
Therefore, Corollary 3.4 follows easily from Theorem 3.2 and (3.20). □
4 Methods
The main purpose of the article is to generalize inequalities (1.8) and (1.9) for the complete elliptic integrals to the complete p-elliptic integrals. To achieve this goal we discuss the monotonicity and convexity properties for the functions given by (1.10) and (1.11) by use of the analytical properties of the Gaussian hypergeometric function and the well-known monotone form of l’Hôpital’s rule given in [5, Theorem 1.25].
5 Results and discussion
In the article, we present the monotonicity and convexity properties and provide the sharp bounds for the functions
and
on the interval \((0, 1)\).
The obtained results are the generalization of the well-known results on the classical complete elliptic integrals given in [32, 33].
6 Conclusion
In this paper, we generalize the monotonicity, convexity, and bounds for the functions involving the complete elliptic integrals to the complete p-elliptic integrals. The given idea may stimulate further research in the theory of generalized elliptic integrals.
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The research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61673169, 11701176, 11401531), the Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (Grant No. 14062093-Y), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant No. LQ17A010010), and the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant No. 17KJD110004).
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Huang, TR., Tan, SY., Ma, XY. et al. Monotonicity properties and bounds for the complete p-elliptic integrals. J Inequal Appl 2018, 239 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-018-1828-2
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