Abstract
The role of fractional integral inequalities is vital in fractional calculus to develop new models and techniques in the most trending sciences. Taking motivation from this fact, we use multiple Erdélyi–Kober (M-E-K) fractional integral operators to establish Minkowski fractional inequalities. Several other new and novel fractional integral inequalities are also established. Compared to the existing results, these fractional integral inequalities are more general and substantial enough to create new and novel results. M-E-K fractional integral operators have been previously applied for other purposes but have never been applied to the subject of this paper. These operators generalize a popular class of fractional integrals; therefore, this approach will open an avenue for new research. The smart properties of these operators urge us to investigate more results using them.
1. Introduction and Motivation
Integral inequalities are a crucial tool in basic mathematical analysis. Various names of fundamental inequalities can be found in the literature, for example, Cauchy–Schwarz, Hlder, and Minkowski inequalities. Moreover, in the past few years, fractional integral inequalities have emerged as one of the most practical and extensive instruments for the advancement of numerous topics in both pure and applied mathematics []. Therefore, several scholars have presented a variety of generalized inequalities involving fractional integral operators [,,,,,,,,,]. In addition to its generalizations and extensions in one or more variables, fractional calculus covers a variety of important problems involving unique mathematical physics functions and offers various potentially helpful methods for solving differential and integral equations []. Several extensions of the Riemann–Liouville (R-L) and Erdélyi–Kober (E-K) operators have been studied in the literature. These extensions include the Bessel function , as well as the H- and G-functions in the integrand []. The work of Srivastava is mentionable for developing a rigorous and more general theory of the operators of fractional calculus. For example, many generic families of operators of fractional integration, including Fox’s H-function and its extensions in two or more variables, are discussed in [] (see also []). A distinct class of fractional calculus operators and their uses concerning higher transcendental functions have been examined in []. Furthermore, numerous variations in both parameters and arguments for the fractional calculus operators, together with associated special functions and integral transformations, are offered in []. Among these, we apply the multiple Erdélyi–Kober fractional operators [,,] in this research to explore the new fractional inequalities that generalize the earlier works cited in []. To the best of our knowledge, these multiple operators have never been used for this purpose. Therefore, before continuing with further discussion about our new results, we first present the basic preliminaries and required facts in the subsequent section.
The plan of this paper is as follows: After presenting the necessary definitions and required facts in Section 2, we proceed to prove the reverse Minkowski inequalities using multiple Erdélyi–Kober fractional operators in Section 3. A novel and new class of inequalities using the multiple Erdélyi–Kober fractional integral operator is presented in Section 4. Finally, Section 5 contains a summary of the results.
2. Multiple Erdélyi–Kober Fractional Integral Operators
This section is complimentary to this research as it contains all necessary preliminaries, concepts, and definitions about M-E-K integral operators. The Fox-H-function is defined by (see [,,]).
The poles of the gamma function in the numerator of the above equation are split by making use of an appropriate contour L. Furthermore, the H-function reduces to the Meijer G-function [] by considering the value of all . The Meijer G-function is further related to many other special functions like Fox–Wright, hypergeometric, and Mittag Leffler functions, which makes the operators defined in the following definition very significant.
Definition 1.
Multiple Erdélyi–Kober fractional integral operators, are defined as
In the above equation, the various parameters used, i.e., , provide the order of integration, while are multi-weight, whereas are also some additional multi-parameters. We can also note that and for all , we obtain the identity operator, i.e., , from the above equation.
Under such circumstances, the generalized fractional integrals can be broken down into commutative products of conventional operators (namely, operators). Consequently, the generalized fractional calculus with a well-developed thorough theory and numerous established applications combines the capabilities of the special functions with the widespread use of conventional fractional calculus [,]. Similar to this, a specific number of compositions of R-L and E-K operators are also taken into consideration [,]. (or if compositions of left as well as right operators are taken) serve as the kernels for these compositions. In [], several subjects including classes of differential and integral equations, geometric function theory, special functions, integral transformations, and operational calculus have all been addressed using the proposed theory.
In [], Dimovski presented the spaces over real variable of good functions. This is where we work in this study.
Definition 2.
For and , we have , where is continuous. Similar mapping holds for with .
More properties of such spaces can be seen in []. Similarly, the elements of Lebesgue integrable spaces () satisfying also preserve the power function. Furthermore, our results depend on the following assumptions:
Remark 1.
It is evident that the kernel in the above definition of the multiple E-K fractional integral remains positive [,,].
Lemma 1.
For , we have the following useful result:
If we consider in Lemma 1, then we obtain the following relation:
and
Furthermore, the class of weighted analytic functions is also preserved using these operators []. These operators are bilinear, commutative, invertible, and satisfy a semigroup property []. It is also proved that under the assumptions (3), they act as bounded linear operators over . For under the assumptions in (3), M-E-K satisfy the initial conditions given by
The Caputo and Riemann–Liouville versions of the M-E-K fractional operators are also investigated in [].
Another interesting feature of these operators is how they relate to a wide range of widely used fractional integrals, as listed below [,], when all are equal, i.e., .
- The Meijer G-function of the form can be used to describe the multiple E-K fractional integrals more simply (see [], Chapter 1).
- and , and M-E-K reduce to the Marichev–Saigo–Maeda (M-S-M) fractional operator [,].
- and , it reduces to the Saigo fractional operator [,].
- For , it reduces to the E-K fractional operator.
- and , it reduces to the (R-L) fractional operator [,].
- , then we obtain the Bessel and hyper-Bessel operators [,].
Furthermore, these operators also contain other well-known fractional integrals, such as Weyl, and the Hadamard and Katugampola can also be obtained (see [] and references therein).
Section 2 specifies that the conditions on the parameters will be considered typical unless specifically stated otherwise during this investigation.
3. Reverse Minkowski Inequalities Using Multiple Erdélyi–Kober Fractional Operator
The M-E-K fractional operators are used in this section to state and prove reverse Minkowski integral inequalities, and the following theorem is our main result about the reverse Minkowski fractional integral inequalities.
Theorem 1.
For let and . Furthermore, for , consider two positive functions and on the interval satisfying , . Then, for , we prove the subsequent inclusion
Proof.
For , and we obtain the following inequality:
Next, for we take the following expression:
Then, by multiplying it on both sides of (8) because of Remark 1 and integrating the resultant inequality for , we obtain
This implies that
and
Next, by making use of the inequality , one can obtain
leading to the following:
Now, if we multiply (9) with the above expression (11) and integrate the resultant inequality for , we obtain
We can compute the required result as stated in Theorem 1 with the addition of inequality (10) and inequality (12). □
Theorem 2.
For let and . Furthermore, for , consider two positive functions and on the interval satisfying, , . Then, for , we prove the subsequent inclusion
Proof.
We can achieve this in two steps. Firstly, we will multiply the inequalities (10) and (12). This will lead to the following:
In the second step, we achieve the subsequent result by making use of the well-known Minkowski inequality on the right-hand side (RHS) of (14):
Hence, the required result, i.e., (13), of the stated theorem follows from inequalities (14) and (15). □
4. New Inequalities Using Multiple Erdélyi–Kober Fractional Integral Operator
This section contains the proof of the novel inequalities involving the M-E-K operators.
Theorem 3.
For , consider to be a pair of positive functions on the interval such that , . If , then we can obtain
Proof.
For and , we obtain the following:
It will lead to the following:
Next, we multiply (9) and (18) then integrate the result for
This implies that
Finally, we compute
Furthermore, by considering , we obtain
This implies that
Next, we multiply (23) and (9) and then integrate the result for to obtain
Therefore, we have
The required result is obtained when we multiply Equations (21) and (25). □
Theorem 4.
Consider and a pair of positive functions on the interval satisfying , . Furthermore, if , then the following inequality can be obtained:
Proof.
For , by making a replacement of and with and , in Theorem 3, we can compute the required result (26). □
Theorem 5.
Consider a pair of positive functions and on , where is non-decreasing and is non-increasing. Therefore, we can obtain
where is defined by (5) and .
Proof.
Theorem 6.
Consider a pair of positive functions and on the interval so that is non-decreasing and is non-increasing. These assumptions will lead to the following statement:
where and is defined by (5).
Proof.
Remark 3.
Considering Theorem 6 using and , we obtain the statement of Theorem 5.
Theorem 7.
Consider a pair of functions such that and on the interval so that Θ is non-decreasing. Then, the assumption
leads to the following result:
Proof.
Since, , ; therefore, by making use of an arithmetic–geometric inequality, we obtain
Next, by considering the product of (9) and (38) and integrating it for the variable , we obtain
This will lead to the following:
which can be expressed as
This implies that
Next, by making use of (36), we obtain
which leads to the desired result. □
Theorem 8.
Consider three positive functions, namely, , , and h, to also be continuous on the interval satisfying
Then, for every , we state that
Proof.
Given that , , and h are positive as well as continuous functions on the interval , by making use of (41), we obtain
Consider the product of (43) with ; then, we have
Next, an integration of the product of (9) and (44) for the variable leads to the following:
This implies that
A product of (45) with leads to the subsequent expression after integration over u
Therefore, we obtain
This leads to the required result. □
Theorem 9.
Consider three positive functions , , and h to be continuous over so that
Then, we can state that
Proof.
Remark 4.
An application of the Theorem 9 by replacing with and with leads to the statement of Theorem 8.
Theorem 10.
Consider a pair of positive continuous functions, namely and h, satisfying over the interval . Suppose is decreasing while is increasing over the interval . Then, for all as well as for any , we state that
Proof.
A substitution of in the statement of Theorem 8 leads to the following:
The inequality leads to the following:
Integrating the product of (9) and (51) over the interval , we obtain
which leads to the following:
Making use of (52), we state that
and therefore we obtain
Hence, a combination of (50) and (53) leads to the required result. □
Theorem 11.
Consider a pair of positive continuous functions, namely and h, satisfying over the interval . Suppose is decreasing and is increasing on , then for all as well as for any , we obtain
Proof.
Substituting in the statement of Theorem (9), we obtain
According to our assumption , we obtain the following:
Next, considering the product of as defined in (9) with (56) and then integrating it over will lead to the following result:
Next, considering the product of (57) with leads to the following:
Following the same procedure, we obtain the subsequent inequality:
Therefore a combined effect of (58) and (59) leads to the following:
Finally, (55) and (60) lead to the required result. □
Theorem 12.
For all , we consider three positive functions , , and h to also be continuous over the interval satisfying
In this way, we obtain the following:
where is defined as (5).
Proof.
Theorem 13.
Consider three positive functions , , and h to also be continuous over and satisfy
Then, we obtain the followingfor:
Proof.
For any t and u, we have the following relation by making use of the assumption stated in Theorem 13:
Similarly by making use of the Theorem 12, we can prove the Theorem 13. □
5. Conclusions
Using the M-E-K fractional integral operators, the authors of this paper present a novel class of inequalities. The existing classical inequalities cited herein can be obtained as special cases of the inequalities produced in this paper. As a result, as was discussed in Section 2 of this article, these inequalities can be reduced in terms of the other non-trivial integral inequalities involving Saigo, M-S-M, R-L [,], and so forth. M-E-K fractional integral operators have been effectively used by authors to investigate a novel special function representation [,]. These operators’ smart characteristics compel us to look at more outcomes for them including the classes of differential and integral equations, geometric function theory, special functions, integral transformations, and operational calculus.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, A.T. and R.S.; methodology, A.T. and R.A.; software, S.Q.; validation, A.T., R.S., R.A., R.M.K. and S.Q.; formal analysis, A.T. and S.Q.; investigation, A.T. and R.A.; resources, S.Q. and R.S.; writing—original draft preparation, A.T., R.S. and R.A.; writing—review and editing, R.M.K. and S.Q.; visualization, S.Q.; supervision, R.S.; project administration, A.T. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
No new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article.
Acknowledgments
The author extends appreciation to the Deanship of Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research at Majmaah University for funding this research work through project number (R-2024-992).
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript:
| M-E-K | Multiple Erdélyi–Kober |
| M-S-M | Marichev–Saigo–Maeda |
| E-K | Erdélyi–Kober |
| R-L | Riemann–Liouville |
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