Abstract
The aim of our study is to establish, for convex functions on an interval, a midpoint version of the fractional HHF type inequality. The corresponding fractional integral has a symmetric weight function composed with an increasing function as integral kernel. We also consider a midpoint identity and establish some related inequalities based on this identity. Some special cases can be considered from our main results. These results confirm the generality of our attempt.
1. Introduction
Let be an interval and let be a continuous function. Then, the function is called convex if it satisfies
The function is called concave whenever is convex.
For convex functions , there is an important integral inequality in the literature, namely the Hermite–Hadamard or, briefly, the integral inequality, which is given by [1]:
where belong to In the literature, one can observe that the integral inequality (2) has been applied to different classes of convexity such as –convexity [2], quasi-convexity [3,4], s–convexity [5], –convexity [6], exponentially convexity [7,8], –convexity [9], and the readers can consult [10,11] to find other types.
As we know, fractional calculus is a generalized form of integer order calculus. Various forms of fractional derivatives including , Hadamard, Caputo, Caputo–Hadamard, Riesz, –, Prabhakar, and weighted versions [12,13,14,15,16] have been developed to date. Most of these versions are described in the sense based on the corresponding fractional integral. Many integer-order integral inequalities such as Ostrowski [17], Simpson [18], Hardy [19], Olsen [20], Gagliardo–Nirenberg [21], Opial [22,23] and Rozanova [24] have been generalized and reformulated from the fractional point of view.
In addition, in 2013, the integral inequality (2) was generalized and reformulated by Sarikaya et al. [25] in terms of fractional integrals. Their result is given by:
where is assumed to be a positive convex function, continuous on the closed interval and for Lebesgue, almost all when with , where and are the left- and right-sided fractional integrals of order , defined by [12]:
respectively.
The inequality (3) is also known as the endpoint inequality due to using the ends , of the interval.
On the other hand, the endpoint inequality (3) has been applied for various classes of convexity such as –convexity [26], F–convexity [27], –convexity [28], –convexity [29]. The reader can find other types of convexity in the literature, which in particular, is true for [30]. In the mean time, applying the end-point inequality to other models of fractional calculus has received a huge amount of attention. For example, this is true for fractional models [31], conformable fractional models [32,33], generalized fractional models [34], fractional models [35,36], tempered fractional models [37], and - and Prabhakar fractional models [38].
After extending the important field of the integral inequalities in (2) and (3), a new version of the endpoint inequality (3) was found by Sarikaya and Yildirim [39], namely the midpoint inequality due to using the midpoint of the interval, which is given by
where the function is convex and continuous.
Definition 1
([40]). Let be a function. Then, we say g is symmetric with respect to if
Based on above definition, in [41], Fejér found a new extension of the type inequality (2), namely the type inequality, and the result is as follows:
where g is the integrable function, and Işcan [42] found the endpoint version of (7) in the sense of fractional integrals, which is also the extension of (3). The result is as follows:
where is convex and continuous and the function g belongs to and is symmetric (see Definition 1).
It is worth mentioning that the midpoint version of (8) has not been found yet, even though many related inequalities of midpoint type were obtained in [43].
Recently, Mohammed et al. [44] found a new endpoint -inequality in terms of weighted fractional integrals with positive weighted symmetric function in a kernel, and their result is as follows:
Here, is a convex and continuous function, a monotone increasing function from the interval onto itself with a continuous derivative on the open interval and is an integrable function, which is symmetric with respect to where
Definition 2.
Let and be an increasing positive and monotone function on the interval with a continuous derivative on the open interval Then, the left-sided and right-sided the weighted fractional integrals of a function according to another function on are defined by [15]:
for such that .
Remark 1.
From Definition 2, we can obtain the following special cases.
In this article, we will investigate the midpoint version of (9) and some related inequalities by using the weighted fractional integrals (10) with positive weighted symmetric functions in the kernel.
The rest of our article is structured in the following way: In Section 2, we will prove the necessary and auxiliary lemmas, including the midpoint version of (9). In Section 3, we will prove our main results, including new midpoint fractional integral inequalities with some related results. We will present some concluding remarks in Section 4.
2. Auxiliary Results
In this section, we prove analogues of the fractional inequalities (2)–(3) and inequalities (7)–(8) for weighted fractional integral operators with positive weighted symmetric function kernels. Here, the main results are as follows: Theorem 1 (it is a generalisation of inequalities (2)–(3) and inequality (7), and a reformulation of inequality (8)) and Lemma 2 (it is a consequence of Theorem 1).
At first, we need the following lemma.
Lemma 1.
Assume that is an integrable function and symmetric with respect to . Then,
- (i)
- for each , we have
- (ii)
- For , we have
Proof.
- (i)
- Let . It is clear that for each and that . Then, by making use of the assumptions and Definition 1, we can obtain (12).
- (ii)
- The symmetry property of w leads to
Remark 2.
Throughout the present article, we denote and the inverse of the function .
Theorem 1.
Let , let be an convex function and be an integrable, positive and weighted symmetric function with respect to . If, in addition, ϱ is an increasing and positive function from onto itself such that its derivative is continuous on , then for , the following inequalities are valid:
Proof.
The convexity of on gives
So, for and , it follows that
Multiplying both sides of (15) by and integrating the resulting inequality with respect to over , we obtain
It follows that
By evaluating the weighted fractional operators, we see that
where we used
Setting and , one can deduce that
It follows that
Thus, the proof of the first inequality of (14) is completed.
On the other hand, we can prove the second inequality of (14) by making use of the convexity of to get
Multiplying both sides of (21) by and integrating with respect to over to get
This ends our proof. □
Remark 3.
From Theorem 1, we can obtain some special cases as follows:
- (i)
- If , then inequality (14) becomeswhere and are the left- and right-weighted fractional integrals, respectively, given by
- (ii)
- (iii)
- (iv)
Lemma 2.
Let let be a continuous with a derivative such that and let be an integrable, positive and weighted symmetric function with respect to . If ϱ is a continuous increasing mapping from the interval onto itself with a derivative which is continuous on , then for , the following equality is valid:
Proof.
Let us set
Analogously, we get
Thus, we deduce:
which completes the proof of Lemma 2. □
Remark 4.
From Lemma 2, we can obtain some special cases as follows:
3. Main Results
By the help of Lemma 2, we can deduce the following inequalities.
Theorem 2.
Let , let be a (continuously) differentiable function on the interval such that , and let be an integrable, positive and weighted symmetric function with respect to . If, in addition, is convex on , and ϱ is an increasing and positive function from onto itself such that its derivative is continuous on , then for the following inequalities are valid:
Proof.
By making use of Lemma 2 and properties of the modulus, we obtain
Since is convex on , we get for :
Hence, we obtain
where
This completes our proof. □
Remark 5.
From Theorem 2, we can obtain some special cases as follows:
Theorem 3.
Let , let be a (continuously) differentiable function on the interval such that , and let be an integrable, positive and weighted symmetric function with respect to . If, in addition, is convex on with and ϱ is an increasing and positive function from onto itself such that its derivative is continuous on , then for , the following inequalities are valid:
Proof.
Since is convex on , we get for :
By making use of Lemma 2, power mean inequality and convexity of , we get
where it is easily seen that
Hence, the proof is completed. □
Remark 6.
From Theorem 3, we can obtain some special cases as follows:
Theorem 4.
Let , let be a (continuously) differentiable function on the interval such that , and let be an integrable, positive and weighted symmetric function with respect to . If, in addition, is convex on with and and ϱ is an increasing and positive function from onto itself such that its derivative is continuous on , then for the following inequalities are valid:
Proof.
Since is convex on , we get for :
By using Lemma 2, Hölder’s inequality, convexity of and properties of modulus, we have
where we used the identity
This ends our proof. □
4. Concluding Remarks
In the present article, we have investigated a midpoint fractional integral inequality by using the weighted fractional integrals with positive weighted symmetric function kernels, which is also the midpoint version of (9). Moreover, we have investigated some related results.
The existing versions of integral inequalities (7) and (8) have been successfully applied to other classes of convex functions, see [46,47,48]. Therefore, our present results can be applied to those classes of convex functions as well.
Furthermore, one can observe that our results in this article are very generic and can be extended to give further potentially useful and interesting integral inequalities of end-midpoint version, like the following one
which was already established by Mohammed and Brevik in [49].
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, P.O.M., H.A., Y.S.H.; methodology, P.O.M., A.K., H.A.; software, P.O.M., A.K., Y.S.H.; validation, P.O.M., A.K., K.M.A., H.A.; formal analysis, P.O.M., A.K., K.M.A.; investigation, P.O.M.; resources, P.O.M., H.A., Y.S.H.; data curation, P.O.M., A.K.; writing—original draft preparation, A.K.; writing—review and editing, A.K., P.O.M., H.A.; visualization, A.K., H.A., K.M.A.; supervision, P.O.M., A.K., H.A., Y.S.H. All authors have read and agreed to the final version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Informed Consent Statement
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Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Taif University Researchers Supporting Project (No. TURSP-2020/217), Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used in our manuscript:
| HH | Hermite–Hadamard |
| HHF | Hermite–Hadamard–Fejér |
| RL | Riemann–Liouville |
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