1. Introduction and Preliminaries
The theory of convexity is a fascinating aspect of mathematical analysis due to significant contributions to various sub-domains of pure and applied analysis, including operational research, optimization, differential equations, functional analysis, and especially inequalities. Convexity of sets and functions has some distinctive attributes, like connected sets, being closed under Minkowski operation, being supported by hyperplanes at boundary points, and having level sets that are also convex; every local minima is a global minima; they have a nonempty sub-differential at interior points; they have the pointwise maximum property, the composition property, and the convex epigraph, respectively. These properties make them quite useful for the construction of new and refinement of existing results of inequalities. One can easily observe that various inequalities are proved directly or indirectly by leveraging the idea of convexity, which is fundamental in the literature. Let us recall the notion of convexity and elementary inequalities.
Definition 1
([
1])
. Let I be an interval in . Then is said to be convex, iffor all belong to interval I and . Analogously, the definition for n distinct points is commonly known as Jensen’s inequality and stated as:
Theorem 1.
Suppose that is a convex function, then Our next result provides the geometrical interpretations of convexity and also useful to check the concavity behaviour of functions.
Theorem 2
(Hermite-Hadamard Inequality)
. Suppose that is a convex function, then From the above double inequality, one can easily associate error inequalities of midpoint and trapezoidal quadrature rules to the left and right estimations of (
1), respectively. In 1998, Dragomir and Agarwal [
2] focused on the right estimation inequality (
1) leveraging the convexity of differentiable functions, and presented the applications to the theory of integration and means. Following the idea of [
2], Kirmaci [
3] analyzed the left estimation of Hadamard’s inequality. Dragomir and Pearce [
4] delivered the upper bounds of Hadamard’s type inequalities by using the quasi-convexity. Niculescu and Persson [
5] published a comprehensive review on various Hermite-Hadamard inequalities along with applications in various directions. El Farissi [
6] proposed a new ramification of Hadamard’s inequality. Gao [
7] developed a more generalized Hermite-Hadamard inequality, which yielded several existing inequalities under certain constraints. For more details, consult [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12].
To discuss further, we report the classical Simpson’s inequality for further proceedings.
Theorem 3
([
13])
. If is four times continuously differentiable function on and , then The above-mentioned studies paved a new way to explore the error analysis of quadrature and cubature rules of Newton-Cotes procedures. It is a fact that to approximate the remainder terms of midpoint, trapezoidal and Simpson’s procedures, we need second- and fourth-order bounded differentiable functions. If a function does not possess the second and fourth ordered differentiability, then there is no way to discuss the error analysis. To discuss the error terms of such functions, inequalities derived from first-order differentiable convex and bounded variation functions play a significant role. In the following perspective, Dragomir et al. [
14] proved the Simpson’s error inequalities using the bounded variations of differentiable functions and furnished the applications to means and integration as well. Pecaric and Varosanec [
15] also examined the Simpson’s inequalities through bounded variation functions of various orders of differentiability. Liu [
16] presented the unified perturbed inequalities for diverse function classes. In [
17], the authors extended the idea of Breckner convexity to higher-order strong convexity and computed the fractional bounds of Simpson’s type inequalities. Cortez et al. [
18] worked on Simpson-Mercer-like inequalities with applications to iterative schemes along with dynamic analysis. In [
19] Rangel-Oliveros and Nwaeze approximated the Simpson’s inequalities for exponential convexity along with applications. Ali et al. [
20] established the fractional Simpson’s inequalities using convexity depending upon a pair of functions. For comprehensive exploration, see [
21,
22,
23,
24,
25].
The Abel-Gontscharoff polynomial and two point right focal problem is discussed in [
26]. The special case of Abel-Gontscharoff polynomial for two point focal for
is described as
where
is the Green function and is reported as:
Observing the identity (
2) and related Green function, Mehmood et al. [
27] defined three new Green’s type functions which are continuous, symmetric and convex. They are defined as:
Definition 2
([
27])
. Let and then Green functions are defined as: Lemma 1
([
27])
. Let be a twice differentiable function function and be the above defined Green’s function. Then following identities hold: In 1976 Vasic and Stankovic [
28] explored the Popoviciu-like inequalities via identities involving Green functions. Butt et al. [
29] examined the Popoviciu-like inequalities by considering Fink’s identity and Green’s functions. Siddique et al. [
30] discussed the majorization inequalities by bridging the extended Montgomery identity and Green’s function approach. In [
31] Iqbal et al. utilized fractional calculus, Green’s functions and convex functions to prove various Hermite-Hadamard-type inequalities.
Motivation and problem statement: The theory of inequalities addresses the problems related to the boundaries of several mathematical quantities, like definite integrals, which are difficult to evaluate analytically. Working on numerical quadrature and cubature rules, authors have tried to predict the bounds of definite integral and average mean value integral through diverse approaches. Our approach includes the development of error inequalities of two- and three-point closed Newton-Cotes schemes via identities governed by Green functions and using the convexity and bounded variation properties of functions. Moreover, we will discuss some of Hadamard’s left inequalities.
We structure our study in three different sections. First, we recover the facts and essential results; literature corresponds to under-considered inequalities, motivation and planning to achieve desired results. The next section is further categorized into subsections. The initial subsection contains the estimates of the right Hermite-Hadamard inequality, and the secondary part is devoted to the error analysis of Simpson’s rule. Finally, we offer some captivating applications to ensure the significance of the study. To the extent of our knowledge, this is the first study in which the error inequalities of midpoint, trapezoid and Simpson’s inequalities through Green function theory are addressed.