Abstract
In this paper, we introduce the h-convex concept for interval-valued functions. By using the h-convex concept, we present new Jensen and Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for interval-valued functions. Our inequalities generalize some known results.
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1 Introduction
The theory of interval analysis has a long history which can be traced back to Archimedes’ computation of the circumference of a circle. It fell into oblivion for a long time because of lack of applications to other sciences. To the best of our knowledge, significant work did not appear in this area until the 1950s. The first monograph on interval analysis is the celebrated book of R.E. Moore [28]. One of the initial uses of interval analysis was to compute the error bounds of the numerical solutions of a finite state machine. However, interval analysis has emerged as very useful over the last fifty years due to its many applications in various fields. We now see applications in automatic error analysis [42], computer graphics [45], neural network output optimization [47], and many others. For more fundamental results and applications of interval analysis theory, we refer the reader to the papers [7, 8, 10, 11, 37] and monograph [29].
Recently, several classical integral inequalities have been extended not only to the context of interval-valued functions by Chalco-Cano et al. [5, 6], Román-Flores et al. [40, 41], Flores-Franulič et al. [19], Costa and Román-Flores [12], but also to more general set-valued maps by Matkowski and Nikodem [24], Mitroi et al. [27], and Nikodem et al. [30]. In particular, Costa [9] presented a new fuzzy version of Jensen inequalities type integral for fuzzy-interval-valued functions. Motivated by Costa [9] and Dragomir [15], we introduce the h-convex concept for interval-valued functions. Under the h-convex concept, we present new Jensen type inequalities for interval-valued functions. The second objective of the article is to promote the following inequality which is known as the Hermite–Hadamard inequality [21, 22]:
where \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a convex function. For various interesting extensions and generalizations of Hermite–Hadamard inequalities, see [16–18, 20, 26, 31, 34–36, 39, 48–50]. In [43], Sarikaya et al. proved a variant of the Hermite–Hadamard inequality for h-convex function as follows.
Theorem 1.1
Let \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be an h-convex function and \(h(\frac{1}{2})\neq 0\). Then
Since then, some further refinements and extensions of the Hermite–Hadamard inequalities for h-convex functions have been extensively studied in [2, 14, 25, 32, 33, 44]. Some Hermite–Hadamard and Jensen type inequalities for strongly h-convex functions were obtained also in [1, 23]. In this paper, we establish some Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for h-convex interval-valued functions. Our results generalize the previous inequalities presented in [9, 32, 43].
The paper is organized as follows. After a section of preliminaries, in Sect. 3 the h-convex (h-concave, h-affine) concepts for interval-valued functions are given. Moreover, some Jensen type inequalities and equalities are proved, respectively. In Sect. 4, we obtain some Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for h-convex interval-valued functions. In Sect. 5, we discuss the main results and limitation of the present studies. We end with Sect. 6 of conclusions and future work.
2 Preliminaries
In this section, we recall some basic definitions, notations, properties, and results on interval analysis, which are used throughout the paper. A real interval \([u]\) is the bounded, closed subset of \(\mathbb{R}\) defined by
where \(\underline{u}, \overline{u}\in \mathbb{R}\) and \(\underline{u} \leq \overline{u}\). The numbers \(\underline{u}\) and u̅ are called the left and the right endpoints of \([\underline{u}, \overline{u}]\), respectively. When \(\underline{u}\) and u̅ are equal, the interval \([u]\) is said to be degenerate. In this paper, the term interval will mean a nonempty interval. We call \([u]\) positive if \(\underline{u}>0\) or negative if \(\overline{u}<0\). The inclusion “⊆” is defined by
For an arbitrary real number λ and \([u]\), the interval \(\lambda [u]\) is given by
For \([u]=[\underline{u},\overline{u}]\) and \([v]=[\underline{v}, \overline{v}]\), the four arithmetic operators \((+,-,\cdot ,/)\) are defined by
We denote by \(\mathbb{R}_{\mathcal{I}}\) the set of all intervals of \(\mathbb{R}\), and by \(\mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) and \(\mathbb{R} ^{-}_{\mathcal{I}}\) the sets of all positive intervals and negative intervals of \(\mathbb{R}\), respectively. The Hausdorff–Pompeiu distance between intervals \([\underline{u},\overline{u}]\) and \([\underline{v}, \overline{v}]\) is defined by
It is well known that \((\mathbb{R}_{\mathcal{I}}, d)\) is a complete metric space.
A division of \([a,b]\) is any finite ordered subset D having the form
The mesh of a division D is the maximum length of the subintervals comprising D, i.e.,
Let \(\mathcal{D}(\delta ,[a,b])\) be the set of all \(D\in \mathcal{D}([a,b])\) such that \(\operatorname {mesh}(D)<\delta \). In each interval \([t_{i-1},t_{i}]\), where \(1\leq i\leq n\), choose an arbitrary point \(\xi_{i}\) and form the sum
where \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) (or \(\mathbb{R}_{\mathcal{I}}\)). We call \(S(f,D,\delta )\) a Riemann sum of f corresponding to \(D\in \mathcal{D}(\delta ,[a,b])\).
Definition 2.1
A function \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is called Riemann integrable (R-integrable) on \([a,b]\) if there exists \(A\in \mathbb{R}\) such that, for each \(\epsilon >0\), there exists \(\delta >0\) such that
for every Riemann sum S of f corresponding to each \(D\in \mathcal{D}(\delta ,[a,b])\) and independent of the choice of \(\xi_{i}\in [t_{i-1},t_{i}]\) for \(1\leq i\leq n\). In this case, A is called the R-integral of f on \([a,b]\) and is denoted by \(A=(R)\int_{a}^{b}f(t)\,dt\). The collection of all functions that are R-integrable on \([a,b]\) will be denoted by \(\mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\).
The following definition is a special case of the Riemann integral for set-valued maps which was earlier given by Dinghas in 1956 [13].
Definition 2.2
A function \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{\mathcal{I}}\) is called interval Riemann integrable (IR-integrable) on \([a,b]\) if there exists \(A\in \mathbb{R}_{\mathcal{I}}\) such that, for each \(\epsilon >0\), there exists \(\delta >0\) such that
for every Riemann sum S of f corresponding to each \(D\in \mathcal{D}(\delta ,[a,b])\) and independent of the choice of \(\xi_{i}\in [t_{i-1},t_{i}]\) for \(1\leq i\leq n\). In this case, A is called the IR-integral of f on \([a,b]\) and is denoted by \(A=(\mathit {IR})\int_{a}^{b}f(t)\,dt\). The collection of all functions that are IR-integrable on \([a,b]\) will be denoted by \(\mathcal{IR}_{([a,b])}\).
Remark 2.3
The concept of IR-integral given in Definition 2.2 is equivalent to the IR-integral given in [28, Definition 9.1].
The following theorem was obtained in [28].
Theorem 2.4
An interval-valued function \(f(t)\in \mathcal{IR}_{([a,b])}\) if and only if \(\overline{f}(t)\), \(\underline{f}(t)\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) and
3 Generalized Jensen’s inequality for interval-valued functions
The following concepts are well known.
Definition 3.1
We say that \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a convex function if for all \(x,y\in [a,b]\) and \(t\in [0,1]\) we have
If inequality (1) is reversed, then f is said to be concave.
Definition 3.2
(Breckner, [3])
Let \(s\in (0,1]\). A function \(f:[0, \infty )\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) is called an s-convex function (in the second sense) if
for each \(x,y\in [0,\infty )\) and \(t\in [0,1]\).
Definition 3.3
(Dragomir et al., [17])
We say that \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a P-function if f is non-negative and for all \(x,y\in [a,b]\) and \(t\in [0,1]\) we have
Definition 3.4
(Varošanec, [46])
Let \(h:[c,d]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a non-negative function, \((0,1)\subseteq [c,d]\) and \(h\not \equiv 0\). We say that \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is an h-convex function, or that f belongs to the class \(\mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R})\), if f is non-negative and for all \(x,y\in [a,b]\) and \(t\in (0,1)\) we have
If inequality (2) is reversed, then f is said to be h-concave, i.e., \(f\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R})\). h is said to be a supermultiplicative function if
for all \(x,y\in [c,d]\). If inequality (3) is reversed, then h is said to be a submultiplicative function. If the equality holds in (3), then h is said to be a multiplicative function.
Obviously, if \(h(t)=t\), then all non-negative convex functions belong to \(\mathit {SX}(h,[a,b])\) and all non-negative concave functions belong to \(\mathit {SV}(h,[a,b])\).
We can introduced now the following concept of function.
Definition 3.5
Let \(h:[c,d]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a non-negative function, \((0,1)\subseteq [c,d]\) and \(h\not \equiv 0\). We say that \(f:[a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) is an h-convex interval-valued function if for all \(x,y\in [a,b]\) and \(t\in (0,1)\) we have
If set inclusion (4) is reversed, then f is said to be h-concave. f is h-affine if it is both h-concave and h-convex. The set of all h-convex (h-concave, h-affine) interval-valued functions is denoted by
Remark 3.6
It is clear that if \(h(t)=t^{s}\), then Definition 3.5 implies a special case of convexity introduced by Breckner [4].
Theorem 3.7
Let \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be an interval-valued function such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t), \overline{f}(t)]\). Then \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\) if and only if \(\underline{f}\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\) and \(\overline{f}\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\).
Proof
Suppose that \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+}_{ \mathcal{I}})\), and consider \(x,y\in [a,b]\), \(t\in (0,1)\). Then we have
that is,
It follows that
and
This shows that \(\underline{f}\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\) and \(\overline{f}\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\). Conversely, if \(\underline{f}\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b], \mathbb{R}^{+})\) and \(\overline{f}\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b], \mathbb{R}^{+})\), then from Definition 3.3 and set inclusion (5) it follows that \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+}_{ \mathcal{I}})\) and the proof is complete. □
Theorem 3.8
Let \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be an interval-valued function such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t), \overline{f}(t)]\). Then \(f\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\) if and only if \(\underline{f}\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\) and \(\overline{f}\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\).
Proof
The proof is similar to that of Theorem 3.7, so we omit it. □
Theorem 3.9
(Varošanec, [46])
Let \(w_{1},w_{2},\ldots,w_{n}\) be positive real numbers (\(n\geq 2\)). If h is a non-negative supermultiplicative function and if \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\), \(x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n}\in [a,b]\), then
where \(W_{n}=\sum^{n}_{i=1}w_{i}\). If h is submultiplicative and \(f\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+})\), then inequality (6) is reversed.
Theorem 3.10
Let \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) such that \(g:[a,b]\rightarrow [m,M]\), \(h:I\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be a supermultiplicative function and \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be h-convex and continuous. If the following limit exists, is finite, and
then
Proof
Consider the division \(D\in \mathcal{D}(\delta ,[a,b]_{ \mathbb{T}})\) be given by
where \(t_{i}=a+\frac{i}{n}(b-a)\) for \(0\leq i\leq n\). In each interval \([t_{i-1},t_{i}]\), where \(1\leq i\leq n\), choose \(\xi_{i}=t_{i-1}=a+ \frac{i-1}{n}(b-a)\) and form the Riemann sum
Thanks to \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\), then
Since \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) is continuous, the composite function \(f(g)\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) and
In addition, f is h-convex, then we have
Consequently, we obtain
Also
then
The proof is complete. □
Remark 3.11
It is clear, if \(h(t)=t\) then \(k=1\), and we get the following Jensen’s inequality:
Theorem 3.12
Let \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) such that \(g:[a,b]\rightarrow [m,M]\), \(h:I\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be a submultiplicative function and \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be h-concave and continuous. If the following limit exists, is finite, and
then
Proof
The proof is similar to that of Theorem 3.10 and hence is omitted. □
As a consequence of Theorems 3.10 and 3.12, we have the following result.
Theorem 3.13
Let \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) such that \(g:[a,b]\rightarrow [m,M]\), \(h:I\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be a multiplicative function, and \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be h-affine and continuous. If the following limit exists, is finite, and
then
Theorem 3.14
Let \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) such that \(g:[a,b]\rightarrow [m,M]\), \(h:I\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be a multiplicative function and \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be h-convex and continuous such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t),\overline{f}(t)]\). If the following limit exists, is finite, and
then
Proof
The proof is a combination of Theorems 1.1, 2.4, 3.10, and 3.12. □
Remark 3.15
It is clear that if \(h(t)=t\), then \(k=1\), and we have
If \([a,b]=[0,1]\), then we get the following Jensen’s inequality [9, Theorem 3.5]:
It is important to note that the above Jensen’s inequality for convex set-valued maps is due to Matkowski and Nikodem [24].
Similarly, we can get the following theorem which gives a generalization of [9, Theorem 3.4].
Theorem 3.16
Let \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) such that \(g:[a,b]\rightarrow [m,M]\), \(h:I\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be a multiplicative function, and \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be h-concave and continuous such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t),\overline{f}(t)]\). If the following limit exists, is finite, and
then
Next theorem follows from Theorems 3.14 and 3.16.
Theorem 3.17
Let \(g\in \mathcal{R}_{([a,b])}\) such that \(g:[a,b]\rightarrow [m,M]\), \(h:I\rightarrow [0,\infty )\) be a multiplicative function and \(f:[m,M]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be h-affine and continuous such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t),\overline{f}(t)]\). If the following limit exists, is finite, and
then
4 Hermite–Hadamard type inequality for interval-valued functions
Now, the application of Theorems 1.1, 2.4, 3.7, and 3.8 gives the following result.
Theorem 4.1
Let \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be an interval-valued function such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t), \overline{f}(t)]\) and \(f\in \mathcal{IR}_{([a,b])}\), \(h:[0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a non-negative function and \(h(\frac{1}{2})\neq 0\). If \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b], \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\), then
If \(f\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\), then
Remark 4.2
It is clear that if \(h(t)=t^{s}\), then Theorem 4.1 reduces to the result of Osuna-Gómez et al. [38, Theorem 4]:
If \(h(t)=t\), then Theorem 4.1 reduces to the result for convex function:
If \(h(t)=1\), then Theorem 4.1 reduces to the result for P-function:
If \(\underline{f}(t)=\overline{f}(t)\), then Theorem 4.1 reduces to the result of Sarikaya et al. [43, Theorem 6]:
The next result generalizes Theorem 3.1 of [32].
Theorem 4.3
Let \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be an interval-valued function such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t), \overline{f}(t)]\) and \(f\in \mathcal{IR}_{([a,b])}\), \(h:[0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be a non-negative function and \(h(\frac{1}{2})\neq 0\). If \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h,[a,b], \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\), then
where
and
If \(f\in \mathit {SV}(h,[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\), then
Proof
The proof is completed by combining Theorems 2.4, 3.7 and the result by Noor et al. [32, Theorem 3.1]. □
Example 4.4
Suppose that \([a,b]=[0,2]\). Let \(h(t)=t\) for all \(t\in [0,1]\) and \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be defined by
for all \(x\in [0,2]\). We have
and
Then we obtain that
Consequently, Theorem 4.3 is verified.
The next result generalizes Theorem 7 of [43].
Theorem 4.5
Let \(f, g:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be two interval-valued functions such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t), \overline{f}(t)]\), \(g(t)=[\underline{g}(t),\overline{g}(t)]\) and \(fg\in \mathcal{IR}_{([a,b])}\), \(h_{1}, h_{2}:[0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be non-negative continuous functions. If \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h_{1},[a,b], \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\), \(g\in \mathit {SX}(h_{2},[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+} _{\mathcal{I}})\), then
where
and
Proof
The proof is completed by combining Theorems 2.4, 3.7, 3.10 and the result by Sarikaya, Saglam, and Yildirim [43, Theorem 7]. □
Theorem 4.6
Let \(f, g:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}}\) be two interval-valued functions such that \(f(t)=[\underline{f}(t), \overline{f}(t)]\), \(g(t)=[\underline{g}(t),\overline{g}(t)]\) and \(fg\in \mathcal{IR}_{([a,b])}\), \(h_{1}, h_{2}:[0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) be non-negative continuous functions and \(h_{1}( \frac{1}{2})h_{2}(\frac{1}{2})\neq 0\). If \(f\in \mathit {SX}(h_{1},[a,b], \mathbb{R}^{+}_{\mathcal{I}})\), \(g\in \mathit {SX}(h_{2},[a,b],\mathbb{R}^{+} _{\mathcal{I}})\), then
Proof
By hypothesis, one has
Then
Integrating over \([0,1]\), we have
This concludes the proof. □
5 Results and discussion
We obtain some Jensen and Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for h-convex interval-valued functions. Our results not only improve upon work by Costa but also generalize the results of Sarikaya et al. Because of the lack of “interval derivatives” with good properties, we have not investigated inequalities involving interval derivatives.
6 Conclusions
This paper introduced the h-convex (concave, affine) concept for interval-valued functions. Under the above concept, we presented some Jensen and Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for interval-valued functions. Our results generalize the previous inequalities presented by Costa et al. The next step in the research direction proposed here is to investigate Jensen and Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for interval-valued functions and fuzzy-valued functions on time scales.
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Zhao, D., An, T., Ye, G. et al. New Jensen and Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for h-convex interval-valued functions. J Inequal Appl 2018, 302 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-018-1896-3
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