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Proof of One Optimal Inequality for Generalized Logarithmic, Arithmetic, and Geometric Means
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2010, Article number: 902432 (2010)
Abstract
Two open problems were posed in the work of Long and Chu (2010). In this paper, we give the solutions of these problems.
1. Introduction
The arithmetic and geometric means of two positive numbers and are defined by , , respectively. If is a real number, then the generalized logarithmic mean with parameter of two positive numbers , is defined by
In the paper [1], Long and Chu propose the two following open problems:
Open Problem 1.
What is the least value such that the inequality
holds for and all with
Open Problem 2.
What is the greatest value such that the inequality
holds for and all with
For information on the history, background, properties, and applications of inequalities for generalized logarithmic, arithmetic, and geometric means, please refer to [1–19] and related references there in.
The aim of this article is to prove the following Theorem 2.1.
2. Main Result
Theorem 2.1.
Let , , , . Let be a solution of
Then,
and is the best constant,
and is the best constant.
3. Proof of Theorem 2.1
Because is increasing with respect to for fixed and , it suffices to prove that for any (resp., ) there exists such that (resp., ), and is the best constant. Without loss of generality, we assume that . Let , . Equations (2.2), (2.3) are equivalent to
On putting , we obtain (3.1) is equivalent to
Introduce the function by
Simple computations yield for
Let and the unique solution to
To see that is optimal in both cases (2.2), (2.3), note that . Thus, if the constant is decreased (resp., increased), then the desired bound for would not hold for small . This follows from the fact that for a fixed , the function
is nondecreasing.
From now on, let for . To show the estimates for this , we start from observing that . Furthermore, one easily checks that
Thus, it suffices to verify that has exactly one zero inside the interval . It follows from the mean value theorem. After some computations, this is equivalent to saying that the function given by
has exactly one root in . Here, the expression under the logarithm may be nonpositive, so we define on a maximal interval, contained in . It is easy to see that this interval must be of the form , for some . This follows from the fact that is strictly positive on and is strictly increasing on this interval.
Since and , we will be done if we show that has exactly one root in . After some computations, we obtain that the equation is equivalent to
Because is a quadratic polynomial in the variable , all that remains is to show that
or, in virtue of the definition of ,
This can be easily established by some elementary calculations. It completes the proof.
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The author is indebted to the anonymous referee for many valuable comments, for a correction of one part of the proof, and for his improving of the organization of the paper. This work was supported by Vega no. 1/0157/08 and Kega no. 3/7414/09.
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Matejíčka, L. Proof of One Optimal Inequality for Generalized Logarithmic, Arithmetic, and Geometric Means. J Inequal Appl 2010, 902432 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/902432
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