Abstract
In this paper, we establish a new auxiliary identity of the Bullen type for twice-differentiable functions in terms of fractional integral operators. Based on this new identity, some generalized Bullen-type inequalities are obtained by employing convexity properties. Concrete examples are given to illustrate the results, and the correctness is confirmed by graphical analysis. An analysis is provided on the estimations of bounds. According to calculations, improved Hölder and power mean inequalities give better upper-bound results than classical inequalities. Lastly, some applications to quadrature rules, modified Bessel functions and digamma functions are provided as well.
Keywords:
convex functions; Bullen’s inequality; Hadamard inequality; Hölder inequality; power mean; fractional integral operators MSC:
26A51; 26D15
1. Introduction
Convexity (concavity) has many applications in several fields, which include mathematics, economics, finance, engineering and computer science. Numerous noteworthy inequalities and properties can be found in various categories of mathematics employing convexity (concavity) theory (see [,,,]). The unique global minimum in convex optimization problems can be efficiently located by applying a variety of optimization methods, including gradient descent, Newton’s method and interior-point approaches. In applied problems, especially in optimization problems, the role of the concept of convexity is well-known. This concept, along with the functions derived from it, has a special place in the theory of integral inequalities; for example the inequalities of Jensen, Hermite, Simpson, Bullen, etc. (see [,,]). Here, we first recall some necessary definitions and inequalities (see [] and references therein).
Definition 1.
The function is said to be convex if we have
for all and If is convex, then ψ is concave.
The double Hermite–Hadamard inequality (hereinafter the Hadamard inequality), widely known in the theory of inequalities, is closely related to convex functions. This inequality is formulated in the literature as follows:
Let : be a convex function. Then, we have the following double inequality:
Many important inequalities have been established in the literature for various classes of convex functions and classes derived from them (for example, see [,,,]).
In [], Bullen proved the following inequality, which is known as Bullen’s inequality, for the convex function :
The well-known Bullen’s inequality was first presented by Bullen in 1978 []. Due to their outstanding uses, Bullen-type inequalities have garnered a lot of interest. Bullen’s inequality is a topic that many scientists and mathematicians are very interested in and concerned about because of its importance in many different domains. Bullen’s inequality has drawn a lot of interest from scholars, who have worked hard over the years to enhance and generalize it. Numerous researchers have generalized the well-known Bullen’s inequality in its conventional form for various subcategories of convex functions. Recently, there have been many interesting and attention-grabbing studies in the literature devoted to improving and generalizing Bullen-type inequalities. For example, some of these works are listed below.
In [], Cakmak established some inequalities of the Hadmard and Bullen types for Lipschitzian functions. In [], Çakmak presented Bullen-type inequalities via fractional integral operators for differentiable convex and convex functions and gave good examples. In [] (see also []), Erden and Sarikaya established generalized Bullen-type inequalities using local fractional integrals and some applications for special means were given. In [], Işcan et al. obtained some generalized Hadamard- and Bullen-type inequalities for convex functions and described some applications and error estimates for the left and right Hadamard inequalities. In [], Hussain and Mehboob, using the generalized fractional integral identity, derived new estimates for the Bullen-type functional for convex functions. In [], Yaşar et al. presented the Bullen-, midpoint-, trapezoid- and Simpson-type inequalities for s-convex functions in the fourth sense. In [], Boulares et al. presented fractional multiplicative Bullen-type inequalities, along with some applications, using multiplicative calculus. Recently, in [], Bahtiyar et al. gave a uniform treatment of fractional Bullen-type inequalities to provide a concrete estimation analysis of bounds using Lipschitz functions, mean value theorem and convexity theory.
It was inevitable that fractional calculus would arise using arbitrary-order integrals and derivatives. Due to its applicability in numerous fields of science and engineering, this topic has gained considerable prominence. The fact that researchers have over time suggested more efficient solutions to physical phenomena attuned to new operators with dominant kernels is a significant difference in this subject. Fractional derivatives play an important role in a number of mathematical problems and the corresponding practical consequences [,]. The fractional calculus approach has recently been employed to define the intricate dynamics of problems in real-life scenarios in several branches of applied science domains. There are numerous uses in the literature [,]. Fractional calculus has been widely employed to achieve novel results in the theory of inequality, connecting fractional operators through the idea of convexity (see [,,,,]). We need the following definition of classical integral operators:
Definition 2
([]). Let The Riemann–Liouville integrals and of order with are defined by
and
respectively, where Here we have In the case of , the fractional integral reduces to the classical integral.
Two classical inequalities—namely, the Hölder inequality and its other form—and the power mean inequalities have been used frequently in the development of the theory of integral inequalities.
Theorem 1
(Hölder inequality). Let , and ,. If , then
for which equality holds if and only if almost everywhere, where A and B are constants.
Theorem 2
(Improved Hölder integral inequality []). Let and ,:. If , then
Theorem 3
(Power mean inequality). Let and ,. If , then
Theorem 4
(Improved power mean integral inequality []). Let and , :. If are the integrable functions on , then
In [], U. Kırmacı proved the following lemma.
Lemma 1.
Let and with Then, we have
where
The main objective of this paper is to obtain some generalized Bullen-type inequalities for continuously differentiable functions. We first establish an identity of the Bullen type for twice-differentiable functions in terms of fractional integral operators. Based on this new identity, some generalized Bullen-type inequalities are obtained by employing convexity properties. Concrete examples are constructed to illustrate the results, and the correctness is verified by graphical analysis. An analysis is provided on the estimations of bounds. According to calculations, improved Hölder and power mean inequalities give better upper-bound results than classical inequalities. Lastly, some applications to quadrature rules, modified Bessel functions and digamma functions are provided as well.
2. Main Results
We start the results in this section by proving the following lemma.
Lemma 2.
Let ψ: and with . When , the equality holds:
where ,
Proof.
By integrating the first integral by parts twice, we get
After changing the variable , we get
For the , we can write
and, similarly to the first integral, we obtain
and
Multiplying both sides of Equation (9) by , we complete the proof. □
Theorem 5.
Let ψ: and If and is a convex function, then the inequality
holds . Here,
and and c are defined above in Lemma 2.
Proof.
From Lemma 2, taking into account that is convex, we obtain
By solving the integrals and taking into account notations, we get
The proof is completed. □
Corollary 1.
If we choose and then, from Equation (10), we obtain
and if then
This inequality was obtained by Kırmacı in [] (see Corollary 1 for , Remarks 1 and 3) and by Dragomir and Pearse in [] (see Corollary 13).
Theorem 6.
Let ψ: and If and is a convex function, then inequality
holds . and c are defined above in Lemma 2, and
Proof.
From Lemma 2, taking into account the properties of the modulus, we obtain
By using the Hölder inequality (Equation (3)), and since is a convex function for the first integral , we have
Let us calculate the integrals.
Considering that for and , we have:
and
Thus, for first integral, we get
Similarly, for the second integral, we can write
and, after solving the integrals, we have
and
In this way, for the second integral, we get
Corollary 2.
Theorem 7.
Let ψ: and . If and is a convex function, then inequality
holds . and c are defined above in Lemma 2, and is the Euler beta function,
Proof.
Here,
Using the definition of convexity,
Thus, we have
First, in , replace with ; then, by using the improved Hölder inequality (Equation (4)), we can write
Similarly, for , we get
After summing the integrals and groupings, taking into account the accepted notation, we get
Corollary 3.
Remark 2.
If we use the inequality for and , then we will have
i.e., the inequality in Equation (16) will take the form:
Theorem 8.
Let ψ: and If and is a convex function, then inequality
holds . and c are defined above in Lemma 2 and
Proof.
Since is a convex function, using the power mean inequality (Equation (5)) for the from Equation (12), we have
Let us calculate the integrals:
Thus, for first integral, we get
Similarly, for the second integral, we get
or
Thus, for the second integral, we have
Corollary 4.
If we choose and then, from Equation (17), we obtain
Theorem 9.
Let ψ: and If and is a convex function on then the inequality
holds . and c are defined above in Lemma 2, and is the Euler beta function,
Proof.
Here,
and, using the definition of convexity,
and
Thus, we have
First, in , replace with ; then, by using the improved power mean inequality (Equation (6)), we can write
Similarly, for the second integral, we get
After summing the integrals and groupings, taking into account the accepted notation, we get
Corollary 5.
3. Examples
Let us demonstrate the obtained results with examples.
Example 1.
Case one: If we choose . If we attempt to take and , then the mapping is convex for , and we can infer that the inequality in Equation (14) will convert to
Case two: Let . If we consider taking and , then we can infer that the inequality in Equation (14) will convert to
The three mappings attained in the and in the inequalities in Equation (23) are drawn out in Figure 1 against . The three mappings deduced from the and in the inequalities in Equation (24) are drawn out in Figure 2 against
Figure 1.
The graphical representation of Example 1 for , and .
Figure 2.
The graphical representation of Example 1 for , .
Example 2.
Case one: We choose . If we consider taking and , then the mapping is convex for and we find that the inequality from Equation (20) will convert to
Case two: Let . If we consider taking and , then we can infer that the inequality from Equation (20) will convert to
The three mappings attained from the and in the inequalities in Equation (25) are drawn out in Figure 3 against . The three mappings deduced from the and in the inequalities in Equation (26) are drawn out in Figure 4 against
Figure 3.
The graphical representation of Example 2 for , and .
Figure 4.
The graphical representation of Example 2 for , .
Comparative Analysis of Classical and Improved Bounds
Example 3.
Since the extended Hölder inequality gives a better estimate than the classical Hölder inequality. The 2D and 3D graphical illustrations of Example 3 are mentioned in Figure 5 and Figure 6, respectively.
Example 4.
Figure 5.
The graphical representation of Example 3 for , and .
Figure 6.
The graphical representation of Example 3 for , .
Since , the extended power mean inequality gives a better estimate than the classical power mean inequality. The 2D and 3D graphical illustrations of Example 4 are mentioned in Figure 7 and Figure 8, respectively.
Figure 7.
The graphical representation of Example 4 for and .
Figure 8.
The graphical representation of Example 4 for .
4. Applications
In this section, we employ our obtained results to derive some notable applications in terms of special means, the quadrature rule and estimations of inequalities in terms of special functions.
4.1. Special Means
We here consider the means for arbitrary real numbers We use the following:
- :
- :
- log-mean:
- mean:
- p-Logarithmic :
Proposition 1.
Let , and , . Then, we have
where
Proof.
This follows from Corollary 2 applied to the convex function
□
Proposition 2.
Let with . Then,
Proof.
This follows from Corollary 2 applied to the convex function
□
Proposition 3.
Let , ∀. Then, we have
Proof.
This follows from Corollary 2 applied to the convex function
□
Proposition 4.
Let , and , . Then, we have
Proof.
This follows from Corollary 4 applied to the convex function
□
Proposition 5.
Let with . Then,
Proof.
This follows from Corollary 4 applied to the convex function
□
4.2. Quadrature Formula
Here, we present an application to a quadrature formula. Let be a partition of the interval and consider the quadrature formula
where
is the quadrature version and is the approximation error. Here, we present some error estimates for the quadrature formula.
Proposition 6.
Under the condition of Corollary 1, the following inequality is true:
Proof.
Apply Corollary 1 and we get the desired result. □
Remark 3.
If the d-fragmentation of the interval is uniform, then, from Equations (27) and (28), we get
and
where and
The resulting error is better than the errors expressed in terms of the second derivatives of the Newton–Cotes (midpoint or trapezoid formula) and Gauss quadrature formulas:
and
respectively.
Proposition 7.
Let ψ: be the differentiable mapping on with . Suppose that , is a convex function; then, for every partition of , the midpoint error satisfies
Proof.
Apply Corollary 3 and then we get the desired result. □
4.3. -Digamma Function
The -digamma mapping is determined by the expression below []:
with and
Proposition 8.
For , we get
Proof.
Applying for to Corollary 1, we obtain the desired result. □
Proposition 9.
For and we get that
Proof.
Applying for to Corollary 4, we obtain the desired result. □
4.4. Modified Bessel Function
Let the function be defined by
For this, we recall the modified Bessel function of the first kind , which is defined as []:
The first- and nth-order derivative formulas of are, respectively []:
where is the hypergeometric function defined by []:
Proposition 10.
Let with ; then, for each , we have
Proof.
Applying = to Corollary 1, we get the desired result. □
5. Concluding Remarks
In this study, we first developed a new fractional Bullen-type identity with a parameter. Thus employing the theory of convexity, we provided new estimations of fractional Bullen-type inequalities pertaining to twice-differentiable functions. An analysis of the improvement of the estimations was provided using several concrete examples with graphical visualizations. Finally, several applications were provided as well. This study could be used to explore for other general fractional integral operators with non-singular kernels. Also, one can think about studying such results for other classes of convex functions, especially coordinate convex functions.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, A.F. and B.B.; methodology, B.B.; validation, S.I.B. and A.F.; investigation, B.B. and M.A.; writing—original draft preparation, B.B. and A.F.; writing—review and editing, A.F. and S.I.B.; visualization, Y.W.; supervision, Y.W.; project administration, A.F.; funding acquisition, A.F. and Y.W. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 12171435).
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
All the authors are thankful to their respective institutes. In addition, Asfand Fahad also acknowledges the Grant No. YS304023966 to support his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Zhejiang Normal University, China.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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