Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to establish some new variants of the Jensen–Mercer inequality via harmonically strongly convex function. We also propose some new fractional analogues of Hermite–Hadamard–Jensen–Mercer-like inequalities using fractional integrals. In order to obtain some of our main results, we also derive new fractional integral identities. To demonstrate the significance of our main results, we present some interesting applications to special means and to error bounds as well.
Keywords:
Hermite–Hadamard–Mercer inequality; Hölder’s inequality; Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals; harmonic convex function; special means; error estimation MSC:
26A33; 26A51; 26D07; 26D10; 26D15; 26D20
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Fractional calculus is one of the leading interdisciplinary areas due to its richness of applications in real-world problems. In recent years, it has become a very interesting field of research. We use different versions of definitions of derivatives and integrals for the generalizations of different phenomena. These definitions also interact with the theory of inequalities. One of the fascinating ways of refining and generalizing the fundamental inequalities is by using fractional calculus concepts. The most investigated fractional integral is the R–L (Riemann–Liouville) integral and derivative with a power function as a kernel []. Several modifications of the indicated integral have been introduced by using some special functions such as [] who introduced a new fractional integral associated with a new extension of the Mittag–Leffler function which is known as Raina’s farctional integral. In [] the authors used the exponential function as a non-singular kernel. Inspired by the ongoing research in [], Caputo and Fabrizio introduced a new fraction integral in terms of a normalization function where functions belong to Hilbert spaces , which is stated as:
Definition 1
([]).Let . Then
where is the normalization function.
On the basis of the derivative defined in [], the following integral operators are defined:
Definition 2
([]).Let . Then, left and right Caputo–Fabrizio fractional integrals are
and
where is the normalization function.
Due to the limitation of the above discussed operators at , the following new operator was introduced and investigated by Atangana and Baleanu in both a Caputo and Fabrizio and an R–L sense using the Mittag–Leffler function as a kernel, which is stated as:
Definition 3
([]).Let . Then
where is the normalization function.
Definition 4
([]).Let . Then
where is the normalization function.
The associated integral operators of the above described derivatives is stated as
Definition 5
([]).The fractional integral related to the new nonlocal kernel of a mapping is defined as follows:
The right-hand side of the integral operator as follows:
where , . Here, is the gamma function. is called the normalization function.
We now discuss some preliminary concepts and results pertaining to the theory of convexity.
Definition 6.
Let be a convex set. A function is said to be convex, if
Analysis of convex sets, convex functions, and their properties is one of the most investigated areas of mathematical analysis. It covers both applied and pure mathematics due to its a great many applications. It has a great impact on topological vector spaces, separation theorem, and normed spaces as well. On the other hand, it has huge applications in economics and engineering and has a genetic relationship with the theory of optimization. In [], the author discussed an interesting property of convexity with respect to a differential equation. For example, let be a continuous function, where interval and are open sets. Consider the second-order differential equation
Definition 7
Remark 1
([]).Note that the set is convex in the classical sense if and only if it is convex with respect to the differential equation .
Convexity also has a close relation with the concept of symmetry. There are many interesting properties of symmetric convex sets. A beneficial point of relation between convexity and symmetry is that we work on one and apply it to the other. For details, see [].
In addition, the study of inequalities in association with convexity is a major and active area of research. Many well-known inequalities are the direct consequences of the applications of convex functions. One of them is Jensen’s inequality, which is stated as:
Theorem 1
([]).Let be a convex function and and , then
It is one of the most investigated and studied inequalities due to its generic property. A number of well known inequalities are obtained from Jensen’s result. In [], Mercer proved the discrete version of Jensen’s inequality for convex functions, which is described as:
Theorem 2.
Let be a convex function, then
for all with .
We now recall the definition of harmonically convex sets.
Definition 8
([]).A set is said to be harmonic convex set, if
The class of harmonically convex functions is defined as:
Definition 9
([]).A function is said to be harmonic convex, if
Harmonic mean is useful in electric circuit theory and different fields of engineering sciences. It is well-known that the total resistance of a set of parallel resistors can be calculated by adding the reciprocals of each individual resistance value and then taking the reciprocal of the total resistance. For example, if and are the resistance of two parallel resistors, then the total resistance is
where is the harmonic mean. For details, see [].
For finding the solution of non-linear problems, parallel-algorithm can be established with the aid of harmonic mean, for details, see [].
Remark 2.
We consider the function and is defined as , then is harmonic convex function if and only if is convex function. It is not hard to check that (2) is equivalent to
In [], Polyak introduced the notion of strongly convex functions, as follows:
Definition 10.
A function is a strongly convex function with modulus , if
.
Noor et al. [] introduced the concept of a strongly harmonic convex function as:
Definition 11.
A function is a strongly convex function with modulus if
.
Remark 3.
We consider the function and is defined as , then is harmonically strongly convex function if and only if is strongly convex function.
Definition 11 can be easily verified using Remark 3. For further investigation about harmonically convex functions, see [,,].
In [], Baloch et al. investigated the Jensen–Mercer inequality in the context of harmonic convex functions.
Theorem 3.
A function be a harmonic convex function, then we have
for all with .
In [], Moradi et al. established the the Jensen–Mercer Inequality for strongly convex functions, which is given as:
Theorem 4.
Let be a strongly convex function with modulus
where for all , , , and .
The association of theory of inequality and fractional calculus has produced an ample amount of literature. Firstly in 2013, Sarikaya et al. [] used the fractional concepts to obtain the refinements of H.H.I (Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality). After this idea, generalization of inequalities through fractional calculus became a powerful tool to obtain new improvements of classical inequalities. It is impossible to list all the articles related to fractional inequalities, but we list some remarkable papers regarding the H.H.J.M inequality. In [], the authors discussed the fractional variants of H.H.J.M-like inequalities. In 2020 Zho et al. [], derived the fractional H.H.J.M type inequalities involving Caputo derivatives. In the following sequel, Butt et al. [,] discussed the following inequality using k-fractional and factional integral,s respectively. Recently, Cortez et al. [] proved some new generalizations of H.H.J.M type inequalities. In [], Butt et al. concluded some more estimates of H.H.J.M-type inequalities for harmonic convexity. Iscan et al. [] proved the fractional analogues of H.H.J.M inequality for -convex. In [], the authors discussed some new variational inequalities involving harmonic convexity. In [], Noor et al. used the concept of harmonic convexity to obtain some integral inequalities in the fractal domain. In 2022, Noor. et al. [] established some variational inclusions involving three operators. Awan et al. [] studied the exponential convexity in the perspective of inequalities. In 2022, Faisal et al. [] used the concept of majorized tuples to obtain some new refinements of H.H.J.M-type inequalities for convex functions. For more details see [,,,,,].
The main motivation of our study is to establish some strong versions of H.H.J.M-type inequalities via fractional calculus. For this purpose, we prove a new generalization of H.H.J.M inequality for strongly convex functions. With the aid of this result, we conclude some H.H.J.M-type inequalities. In order to obtain some estimates of H.H.J.M inequality, we prove two new fractional identities. For the validity of our main outcomes, we discuss some applications to means and error bounds as well. We hope that the ideas and techniques of the paper will inspire the interested readers.
We have organized our study into the following sections. In the first section, we give some preliminaries and basic facts of convexity and fractional calculus. In the second section, we prove fractional H.H.J.M inequalities involving fractional integrals. In the proceeding section, we derive two equalities for differentiable functions. Then, in the next section, we drive some bounds of H.H.J.M inequality with the help of lemmas. At the end, we present some applications.
2. H.H.J.M Inequalities
We now discuss our main results. We give a stronger version of the well-known Jensen–Mercer inequality for strongly harmonic convexity and H.H.J.M-type inequalities.
We first give the following Jensen–Mercer inequality for strongly harmonic convex functions.
Theorem 5.
Let be a strongly harmonic convex function with modulus where . Let be ø-points and let , be such that . Then we have the following inequality:
Proof.
From Remark 3, we can write as
Since is harmonically strongly convex function, then by Remark 3, is strongly convex function, and we have
Again using the definition of , we obtain our required result. □
Now we establish Hermite–Hadamard–Mercer inequality for strongly harmonic convex functions involving the Atangana–Baleanu fractional integral.
Theorem 6.
Let be a strongly harmonic convex function on with , then
where with and is normalization with .
Proof.
Let us consider and in Theorem 5; we obtain
Multiplying both sides by and integrating with respect to on , then we have
Multiplying both sides of the above inequality by and then subtracting from both sides, we have
Now, by comparing the above inequality with the Atangana–Baleanu fractional integral, we have the
This completes the proof of our first inequality. To prove our second inequality, we use the notion of strongly harmonic convexity.
Now, multiplying both sides by and integrating over , we have
Adding both sides of the above inequality, we have
After simplification, we obtain the following result
Theorem 7.
Let be a strongly harmonic convex function on with , then
where with and is normalization with .
Proof.
Let us consider and in Theorem 5; we have
Multiplying both sides by and integrating with respect to on , then we have
Subtracting from both sides of the above inequality, and comparing with Atangana–Baleanu fractional integrals, we have
This completes the proof of our first inequality. To prove our second inequality, we use the notion of strongly harmonic convexity, we have
Now, multiplying both sides by and integrating over , we have
Adding to both sides of the above inequality, we have
After simplification, we obtain the required inequality. □
3. Key Lemmas
We now derive some new generalized fractional identities involving -fractional integrals, which will serve as an auxiliary result in proving our main result in successive sections. It is worth mentioning that theses fractional equalities are quite different from the lemmas obtained with the help of Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals.
Lemma 1.
Let . Suppose be a differentiable function on with , then
where
Here, is normalizing function with and .
Proof.
Consider the right-hand side of (5)
where
and
Next, we have another identity for differentiable functions, which provides us some stronger versions of midpoint H.H.J.M-type inequalities.
Lemma 2.
Let . Suppose be a differentiable function on with , then
where
Here, is a normalizing function and and .
Proof.
Consider
Here, we have
and
Substituting the values of and in J, then we obtain our required result. □
4. Estimates of H.H.J.M-Type Inequalities Involving Strongly Harmonic Convex Functions
In this portion, we consider the strongly harmonic convex property of the functions to obtain some new fractional bounds of H.H.J.M-type inequalities using some fundamental inequalities such as Hölder’s, Power mean inequalities.
Theorem 8.
All the assumptions of Lemma 5 are satisfied, and let be an harmonic convex function, then
where
where , , and with .
Proof.
From Lemma 5, the modulus property and harmonic convexity of , we have
After simple calculations, we obtain the required result. □
Theorem 9.
All the assumptions of Lemma 5 are satisfied, and let be an harmonic convex function, then we have
where
and are already defined, with and , .
Proof.
From Lemma 5, the modulus property, Hölder’s inequality and harmonic convexity of , we have
Simply integrating the above inequality, we establish the desired result. □
Theorem 10.
All the assumptions of Lemma 2 are satisfied, and let be an harmonic convex function, then
where
and and , and .
Proof.
Using Lemma 2, the modulus property and harmonic convexity, we have
After simple calculation, we obtain the required result. □
Theorem 11.
All the assumptions of Lemma 2 are satisfied, and let be an harmonic convex function, then we have
where
Moreover, and are defined in an earlier Theorem, , and , .
Proof.
Using Lemma 2, the modulus property, Hölder’s inequality and harmonic convexity of , we have
After simple calculation, we obtain the required result. □
Theorem 12.
All the assumptions of Lemma 2 are satisfied, and let be an harmonic convex function, then we have
where
, and , .
Proof.
Using Lemma 2, the modulus property, Hölder’s inequality and harmonic convexity of , we have
After simple calculation, we obtain the required result. □
5. Applications
Finally, we give some applications to special means between two positive real numbers. Now, we rewrite some well-known means.
- The arithmetic mean:
- The generalized log-mean:
Proposition 1.
Under the assumptions of Theorem 8, we have
where
where , are defined earlier and .
Proof.
By choosing and in Theorem 8 with and , respectively, we obtain the required result. □
Proposition 2.
Under the assumptions of Theorem 9, we have
where is already defined.
Proof.
By choosing and in Theorem 9 with and , respectively, we obtain our required result. □
Remark 4.
Note that similar interesting inequalities can be established by other Theorems; we omit the proof of the remaining result.
Error Bounds
At the end, we present some bounds for quadrature schemes of the above integral inequalities. Let be the partition of . We denote
where and are the remainder terms, and and and are already defined in previous results.
Proposition 3.
Under the assumptions of Theorem 9, we have
where
Proof.
By applying Theorem 9 with on subinterval of the partition and summing over i from 0 to , we obtain our required result. □
Proposition 4.
All the assumptions of Theorem 12 are satisfied, then we have
where
Proof.
By applying Theorem 12 with on subinterval of the partition and summing over i from 0 to , we obtain our required result. □
6. Conclusions
In this study, we have obtained some new variants of Hermite–Hadamard-type inequalities through the Jensen–Mercer inequality for strongly harmonic convex functions in the fractional domain. We have used the Atanagna and Baleanu fractional integral in the Riemann sense, which is developed to overcome the deficiency of Caputo–Fabrizio fractional integrals and derivatives; we have developed the H.H.J.M-type inequalities for strongly convex functions by utilizing the fractional identities. Later on, we discussed some applications as well. Hopefully, the technique of the paper and the idea used in the article will inspire interested readers and opens= a new avenue for further research in the field. In the future, we will consider some quantum analogs of the H. H. J. M-like inequalities involving strong convexity and further extend the work for other classes of convexity.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, M.Z.J., M.U.A. and M.A.N.; methodology, M.U.A.; software, B.B-.M. and M.Z.J.; validation, M.U.A., M.V.M. and H.B.; formal analysis, M.Z.J., M.U.A., M.V.M., H.B. and A.G.K.; investigation, M.Z.J., M.U.A., M.V.M. and H.B.; writing—original draft preparation, B.B.-M., M.Z.J., M.U.A., M.V.M., H.B., A.G.K. and M.A.N.; writing—review and editing, M.Z.J. and M.U.A. supervision, M.U.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
Bandar Bin-Mohsin is supported by Researchers Supporting Project number (RSP-2021/158), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Data Availability Statement
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Acknowledgments
The authors are thankful to the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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