Abstract
Fractional analysis, as a rapidly developing area, is a tool to bring new derivatives and integrals into the literature with the effort put forward by many researchers in recent years. The theory of inequalities is a subject of many mathematicians’ work in the last century and has contributed to other areas with its applications. Especially in recent years, these two fields, fractional analysis and inequality theory, have shown a synchronous development. Inequality studies have been carried out by using new operators revealed in the fractional analysis. In this paper, by combining two important concepts of these two areas we obtain new inequalities of Chebyshev–Polya–Szegö type by means of generalized fractional integral operators. Our results are concerned with the integral of the product of two functions and the product of two integrals. They improve the results in the paper (J. Math. Inequal. 10(2):491–504, 2016).
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1 Introduction and preliminaries
The Chebyshev inequality, which has a well-known place in inequality theory, generates limit values for synchronous functions and helps to produce new variance inequalities of many different types. The basis for this inequality lies in the following Chebyshev functional (see [3]):
where f and g are two integrable functions that are synchronous on \([ a,b ] \), that is,
for \(x,y\in [ a,b ] \). The Chebyshev inequality states that \(T ( f,g ) \geq0\).
Many studies have been done on the Chebyshev inequality and its generalizations, iterations, extensions, and modifications for various classes of functions. They have found a wide usage in numerical analysis, functional analysis, and statistics; for these results, we refer the reader to [3, 4, 17].
Another aesthetic and useful inequality is known the Pólya–Szegö inequality, which constitutes the main motivation point in our study. It is expressed as follows (see [19]):
The following inequality for bounded and positive functions was proved by Dragomir and Diamond [10] as a good example of the use of Pólya–Szegö inequality in achieving a Grüss-type inequality.
Theorem 1
Let\(f,g: [ a,b ] \rightarrow \mathbb{R} _{+}\)be integrable functions such that
and
for\(x\in [ a,b ] \). Then we have
The constant\(\frac{1}{4}\)is the best possible in (2) in the sense it cannot be replaced by a smaller one.
Since one of the main motivation points of fractional analysis is obtaining more general and useful integral operators, the generalized fractional integral operator is a good tool to generalize many previous studies and results (see [6–9, 14, 18, 20]). Similarly, in inequality theory, researchers use such general operators to generalize and extend their inequalities (see [1, 11, 13, 16, 22–28, 30]). Now we will remind some important concepts, which guide the researchers working in fractional analysis.
Definition 1
(Diaz and Parigun [5])
The k-gamma function \(\varGamma_{k}\), a generalization of the classical gamma function, is defined as
It is shown that Mellin transform of the exponential function \(e^{-\frac {t^{k}}{k}} \) is the k-gamma function given by
Obviously, \(\varGamma_{k}(x+k)=x \varGamma_{k}(x)\), \(\varGamma(x)=\lim_{k \rightarrow1}\varGamma_{k} (x)\), and \(\varGamma_{k}(x)=k^{\frac{x}{k}-1} \varGamma(\frac{x}{k})\).
Definition 2
(See [20])
We define
where the coefficients \(\sigma(m)\) for \(m\in\mathbb{N}_{0}=\mathbb{N} \cup\{0\} \) form a bounded sequence of positive real numbers, and \(\mathcal{R}\) is the set of real numbers.
Definition 3
(See [29])
Let \(k>0\), and let \(g:[a,b ]\rightarrow\mathcal{R}\) be an increasing function having a continuous derivative \(g'(x)\) on \((a,b)\). The left- and right-side generalized k-fractional integrals of a function f with respect to g on \([a,b]\) are respectively defined as follows:
and
where \(\lambda, \rho>0\) and \(\omega\in\mathcal{R}\).
Remark 1
(See [29])
The significant particular cases of the integral operators given in (3a) and (3b) are as follows:
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1.
For \(k=1\), the operator in (3a) leads to the generalized fractional integral of f with respect to g on \([a,b]\) given as
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{J}_{\rho,\lambda,a+;\omega}^{\sigma,g} f(x)= \int _{a}^{x} \frac{g'(t)}{(g(x)-g(t))^{1-\lambda}} \mathcal{F}_{\rho,\lambda}^{\sigma } \bigl[\omega\bigl(g(x)-g(t) \bigr)^{\rho}\bigr] f(t) \,dt, \quad x>a. \end{aligned}$$ -
2.
For \(g(t)=t\), the operator in (3a) leads to the generalized k-fractional integral of f given as
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{J}_{\rho,\lambda,a+;\omega}^{\sigma,k} f(x)= \int _{a}^{x} (x-t)^{\frac{\lambda}{k}-1} \mathcal{F}_{\rho,\lambda}^{\sigma,k} \bigl[\omega(x-t)^{\rho}\bigr] f(t) \,dt, \quad x>a. \end{aligned}$$ -
3.
For \(g(t)=\ln(t)\), the operator in (3a) leads to the generalized Hadamard k-fractional integral of f given as
$$\begin{aligned} \mathcal{H}_{\rho,\lambda,a+;\omega}^{\sigma,k} f(x)= \int _{a}^{x} \biggl(\ln\frac{x}{t} \biggr)^{\frac{\lambda}{k}-1}\mathcal{F}_{\rho,\lambda}^{\sigma ,k} \biggl[ \omega\biggl(\ln\frac{x}{t}\biggr)^{\rho}\biggr] f(t) \frac{dt}{t}, \quad x>a. \end{aligned}$$ -
4.
For \(g(t)=\frac{t^{s+1}}{s+1}\), \(s\in\mathcal{R}- \{-1\} \), the operator in (3a) leads to the generalized \((k,s)\)-fractional integral of f given as
$$\begin{aligned} &s \mathcal{J}_{\rho,\lambda,a+;\omega}^{\sigma,k} f(x)\\ &\quad= (1+s)^{1-\frac {\lambda}{k}} \int _{a}^{x} \bigl(x^{s+1}-t^{s+1} \bigr)^{\frac{\lambda}{k}-1} t^{s} \mathcal{F}_{\rho,\lambda}^{\sigma,k} \biggl[\omega\biggl(\frac {x^{s+1}-t^{s+1}}{s+1}\biggr)^{\rho}\biggr] f(t) \,dt, \quad x>a. \end{aligned}$$
Remark 2
Similarly, all these particular cases can be generalized for the operator given in (3b).
Remark 3
For \(k=1\) and \(g(t)=t\) the operators defined in (3a) and (3b) take the generalized fractional integral operators defined by Agarwal (see [3]) and Raina et al. (see [6]) given as
Remark 4
For different choices of g, we can obtain other new generalized fractional integrals operators.
Remark 5
For \(\omega=0\), \(\lambda=\alpha\), and \(\sigma(0)=1\) in Definition 3, we get the generalized fractional operators defined by Akkurt et al. [2].
Remark 6
For \(\omega=0\), \(\lambda=\alpha\), and \(\sigma(0)=1\) in Definition 3, we have the following particular cases:
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1.
for \(k=1\), the fractional integrals of a function f with respect to a function g (see [14]);
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2.
for \(g(t)=t\), the k-fractional integrals (see [15]);
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3.
for \(g(t)=\ln(t)\) and \(k=1\), the Hadamard fractional integrals (see [14]);
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4.
for \(g(t)=\frac{t^{s+1}}{s+1}\), \(s\in\mathcal{R}-\{-1\} \), the \((k,s)\)-fractional integral operators (see [21]);
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5.
for \(g(t)=\frac{t^{s+1}}{s+1}\), \(s\in\mathcal{R}-\{-1\} \), and \(k=1\), the Katugampola fractional integral operators (see [12]).
In the main section of this paper, using the generalized fractional integral operator mentioned in the Introduction, we obtain new and motivating Pólya–Szegö- and Chebyshev-type inequalities. We emphasize that the findings obtained by including the particular cases of the results are general.
2 Main results
We start with certain Pólya–Szegö-type integral inequalities for positive integral functions involving generalized fractional integral operator.
Theorem 2
Assume that
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fandgare two positive integrable functions on\([ 0,\infty )\);
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\(h:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathcal{R}\)is an increasing positive function with continuous derivative on \((a,b)\);
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there exist four positive integrable functions\(v_{1}\), \(v_{2}\), \(w_{1}\), and\(w_{2}\)such that
$$\begin{aligned}& 0< v_{1} ( t ) \leq f ( t ) \leq v_{2} ( t ) ,\qquad0< w_{1} ( t ) \leq g ( t ) \leq w_{2} ( t ) \quad \bigl( t \in [ 0,x ] , x>0 \bigr), \end{aligned}$$(6a)$$\begin{aligned}& 0< v_{1} ( t ) \leq f ( t ) \leq v_{2} ( t ) ,\qquad0< w_{1} ( t ) \leq g ( t ) \leq w_{2} ( t ) \quad\bigl( t \in [ 0,x ] ,x>0 \bigr). \end{aligned}$$(6b)
Then we have the following inequality for generalized fractional integral operators:
Proof
From (6a) and (6b), for \(t \in [ 0,x ] \), \(x>0\), we have
and
By multiplying (8) and (9) we get
By the last inequality we can write
Multiplying both sides of (10) by
and integrating the resulting inequality with respect to t over \(( 0,x ) \), we get
and by applying the AM-GM inequality \(a+b\geq2\sqrt{ab}\), \(a,b\in \mathbb{R} ^{+}\), we have
which implies that
So, we get the desired result. □
Corollary 1
If\(v_{1}=m\), \(v_{2}=M\), \(w_{1}=n\), and\(w_{2}=N\), then we have
Theorem 3
Let
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fandgbe two positive integrable functions on\([ 0,\infty )\);
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\(h:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathcal{R}\)be an increasing positive function with a continuous derivative on\((a,b)\);
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there exist four positive integrable functions\(v_{1}\), \(v_{2}\), \(w_{1}\), and\(w_{2}\)such that condition (6a) and (6b) is satisfied.
Then we have the following inequality for generalized fractional integral operators:
Proof
From conditions (6a) and (6b) we get
and
which leads to
Multiplying both sides of (13) by \(w_{1} ( \xi ) w_{2} ( \xi ) g^{2} ( \xi ) \), we have
Multiplying both sides of (10) by
and integrating the resulting inequality with respect to t and ξ over \(( 0,x ) ^{2}\), we get
Applying the AM-GM inequality, we obtain
which leads to the desired inequality (12). The proof is completed. □
Corollary 2
If\(v_{1}=m\), \(v_{2}=M\), \(w_{1}=n\), and\(w_{2}=N\), then we have
where
Theorem 4
Let
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fandgbe two positive integrable functions on\([ 0,\infty )\);
-
\(h:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathcal{R}\)be an increasing positive function with a continuous derivative on\((a,b)\);
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there exist four positive integrable functions\(v_{1}\), \(v_{2}\), \(w_{1}\), and\(w_{2}\)such that condition (6a) and (6b) is satisfied.
Then we have the following inequality for generalized fractional integrals:
Proof
Using condition (6a) and (6b), we get
Multiplying both sides of (10) by
and integrating the resulting inequality with respect to t over \(( 0,x ) \), we obtain
which leads to
Similarly, we can write
By a similar argument we have
which implies
Multiplying (17) and (18), we get (15). The proof is completed. □
Corollary 3
If\(v_{1}=m\), \(v_{2}=M\), \(w_{1}=n\), and\(w_{2}=N\), then we have
Theorem 5
Let
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fandgbe two positive integrable functions on\([ 0,\infty )\);
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\(h:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathcal{R}\)be an increasing positive function with a continuous derivative on\((a,b)\);
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there exist four positive integrable functions\(v_{1}\), \(v_{2}\), \(w_{1}\), and\(w_{2}\)such that condition (6a) and (6b) is satisfied.
Then we have the following inequality generalized fractional integral operators:
where
and
Proof
Let f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([ 0,\infty ) \). For \(t ,\xi\in ( 0,x ) \) with \(x>0\), we define
that is,
Multiplying both sides of (20) by
and integrating the resulting inequality with respect to t and ξ over \(( 0,x ) ^{2}\), we get
Applying the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, we can write
As a consequence,
Applying Lemma 2 with \(w_{1} ( t ) =w_{2} ( t ) =g ( t ) =1\), we get
This implies that
Further calculations produce the following inequalities:
and
Similarly, applying Lemma 2 with \(v_{1} ( \tau ) =v_{2} ( \tau ) =f ( \tau ) =1\), we have
and
Using (21)–(24), we obtain the result. □
Theorem 6
Let
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fandgbe two positive integrable functions on\([ 0,\infty )\);
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\(h:[a,b]\rightarrow\mathcal{R}\)be an increasing positive function with a continuous derivative on\((a,b)\);
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there exist four positive integrable functions\(v_{1}\), \(v_{2}\), \(w_{1}\), and\(w_{2}\)such that condition (6a) and (6b) is satisfied.
Then we have the following inequality for generalized fractional integral operators:
where
Proof
Setting \(\lambda_{1} =\lambda_{2} \) in (19), we obtain (25). □
Corollary 4
If\(v_{1}=m\), \(v_{2}=M\), \(w_{1}=n\), and\(w_{2}=N\), then we have
3 Conclusion
In this paper, we obtained several new inequalities of Pólya–Szegö- and Chebyshev-type by using generalized fractional integral operators. The main findings offer new estimations for various integral inequalities. Many particular cases can be revealed by using the operators. The interested researchers can investigate similar cases by using different types of integral operators. Also, the problem can be discussed in different spaces by expanding the motivation of this study.
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Butt, S.I., Akdemir, A.O., Bhatti, M.Y. et al. New refinements of Chebyshev–Pólya–Szegö-type inequalities via generalized fractional integral operators. J Inequal Appl 2020, 157 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-020-02425-6
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