scholarly journals Refinements of Jensen's inequality and applications

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 5328-5346
Author(s):  
Tareq Saeed ◽  
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Muhammad Adil Khan ◽  
Hidayat Ullah ◽  

<abstract><p>The principal aim of this research work is to establish refinements of the integral Jensen's inequality. For the intended refinements, we mainly use the notion of convexity and the concept of majorization. We derive some inequalities for power and quasi–arithmetic means while utilizing the main results. Moreover, we acquire several refinements of Hölder inequality and also an improvement of Hermite–Hadamard inequality as consequences of obtained results. Furthermore, we secure several applications of the acquired results in information theory, which consist bounds for Shannon entropy, different divergences, Bhattacharyya coefficient, triangular discrimination and various distances.</p></abstract>

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Tahir Rasheed ◽  
Saad Ihsan Butt ◽  
Đilda Pečarić ◽  
Josip Pečarić ◽  
Ahmet Ocak Akdemir

We generalize Jensen’s integral inequality for real Stieltjes measure by using Montgomery identity under the effect of n − convex functions; also, we give different versions of Jensen’s discrete inequality along with its converses for real weights. As an application, we give generalized variants of Hermite–Hadamard inequality. Montgomery identity has a great importance as many inequalities can be obtained from Montgomery identity in q − calculus and fractional integrals. Also, we give applications in information theory for our obtained results, especially for Zipf and Hybrid Zipf–Mandelbrot entropies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
László Horváth

AbstractThere are a lot of papers dealing with applications of the so-called cyclic refinement of the discrete Jensen’s inequality. A significant generalization of the cyclic refinement, based on combinatorial considerations, has recently been discovered by the author. In the present paper we give the integral versions of these results. On the one hand, a new method to refine the integral Jensen’s inequality is developed. On the other hand, the result contains some recent refinements of the integral Jensen’s inequality as elementary cases. Finally some applications to the Fejér inequality (especially the Hermite–Hadamard inequality), quasi-arithmetic means, and f-divergences are presented.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yongping Deng ◽  
Hidayat Ullah ◽  
Muhammad Adil Khan ◽  
Sajid Iqbal ◽  
Shanhe Wu

In this study, we present some new refinements of the Jensen inequality with the help of majorization results. We use the concept of convexity along with the theory of majorization and obtain refinements of the Jensen inequality. Moreover, as consequences of the refined Jensen inequality, we derive some bounds for power means and quasiarithmetic means. Furthermore, as applications of the refined Jensen inequality, we give some bounds for divergences, Shannon entropy, and various distances associated with probability distributions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-130
Author(s):  
Nasir Mehmood ◽  
Saad Ihsan Butt ◽  
Ðilda Pečarić ◽  
Josip Pečarić

AbstractTo procure inequalities for divergences between probability distributions, Jensen’s inequality is the key to success. Shannon, Relative and Zipf-Mandelbrot entropies have many applications in many applied sciences, such as, in information theory, biology and economics, etc. We consider discrete and continuous cyclic refinements of Jensen’s inequality and extend them from convex function to higher order convex function by means of different new Green functions by employing Hermite interpolating polynomial whose error term is approximated by Peano’s kernal. As an application of our obtained results, we give new bounds for Shannon, Relative and Zipf-Mandelbrot entropies.


2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 936-947
Author(s):  
Slavica Ivelić Bradanović ◽  
Josip Pečarić

AbstractThis paper gives extensions and improvements of Sherman’s inequality forn-convex functions obtained by using new identities which involve Green’s functions and Fink’s identity. Moreover, extensions and improvements of Majorization inequality as well as Jensen’s inequality are obtained as direct consequences. New inequalities between geometric, logarithmic and arithmetic means are also established.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1748-1759
Author(s):  
Lei Xiao ◽  
Guoxiang Lu

Abstract In this paper, we present a new refinement of Jensen’s inequality with applications in information theory. The refinement of Jensen’s inequality is obtained based on the general functional in the work of Popescu et al. As the applications in information theory, we provide new tighter bounds for Shannon’s entropy and some f-divergences.


Information ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Neri Merhav

In this work, we propose both an improvement and extensions of a reverse Jensen inequality due to Wunder et al. (2021). The new proposed inequalities are fairly tight and reasonably easy to use in a wide variety of situations, as demonstrated in several application examples that are relevant to information theory. Moreover, the main ideas behind the derivations turn out to be applicable to generate bounds to expectations of multivariate convex/concave functions, as well as functions that are not necessarily convex or concave.


Mathematics ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Josip Pečarić ◽  
Jurica Perić ◽  
Sanja Varošanec

We give a refinement of the converse Hölder inequality for functionals using an interpolation result for Jensen’s inequality. Additionally, we obtain similar improvements of the converse of the Beckenbach inequality. We consider the converse Minkowski inequality for functionals and of its continuous form and give refinements of it. Application on integral mixed means is given.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zlatko Pavić ◽  
Shanhe Wu ◽  
Vedran Novoselac

The paper deals with the fundamental inequalities for convex functions in the bounded closed interval. The main inequality includes convex functions and positive linear functionals extending and refining the functional form of Jensen’s inequality. This inequality implies the Jensen, Fejér, and, thus, Hermite-Hadamard inequality, as well as their refinements.


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