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Some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for n-time differentiable -convex functions
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2012, Article number: 267 (2012)
Abstract
In the paper, the famous Hermite-Hadamard integral inequality for convex functions is generalized to and refined as inequalities for n-time differentiable functions which are -convex.
MSC: 26D15, 26A51, 41A55.
1 Introduction
Throughout this paper, we adopt the following notations:
We recall some definitions of several convex functions.
Definition 1.1 A function is said to be convex if
holds for all and .
Definition 1.2 ([1])
For and , if
is valid for all and , then we say that is an m-convex function on .
Definition 1.3 ([2])
For and , if
is valid for all and , then we say that is an -convex function on .
In recent decades, plenty of inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard type for various kinds of convex functions have been established. Some of them may be reformulated as follows.
Theorem 1.1 ([[3], Theorem 2.2])
Let be a differentiable mapping and with . If is convex on , then
Theorem 1.2 ([[4], Theorem 2])
Let be m-convex and . If for , then
Theorem 1.3 ([[2], Theorem 2.2])
Let be an open interval and let be a differentiable function such that for . If is m-convex on for some and , then

Theorem 1.4 ([[2], Theorem 3.1])
Let be an open interval and let be a differentiable function such that for . If is -convex on for some and , then

where
and
For more and detailed information on this topic, please refer to the monograph [5] and newly published papers [6–16].
In this paper, we establish some Hermite-Hadamard type integral inequalities for n-time differentiable functions which are -convex.
2 A lemma
In order to find inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard type for -convex functions, we need the following lemma.
Lemma 2.1 ([[17], Lemma 2.1] or [[18], Lemma 2.1])
Let be an n-time differentiable function such that for is absolutely continuous on . Then the identity
holds for all , where the kernel is defined by
3 Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for -convex functions
We now set off to establish some new integral inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard type for n-time differentiable -convex functions.
Theorem 3.1 Let be an n-time differentiable function for and let and . If and for is -convex on , then

where and is the beta function
Proof If , by Lemma 2.1, Hölder’s integral inequality, and the -convexity of , we have
Substituting
and
into the above inequality leads to the inequality (3.1) for .
If or , by virtue of Lemma 2.1 and the property that is -convex on , we have

and

The inequality (3.1) for or follows. Theorem 3.1 is thus proved. □
Corollary 3.1 Under the conditions of Theorem 3.1,
(1) when , we have
(2) when , we have
(3) when , we have
(4) when , we have

Corollary 3.2 Under the conditions of Theorem 3.1,
(1) when , we have

(2) when , we have

(3) when , we have

Theorem 3.2 Let and be an n-time differentiable function for , and let and . If , for is -convex on , and , then

Proof When , by Lemma 2.1 and Hölder’s integral inequality, we have

where
and
Since is -convex on , we have
and
Hence, the inequality (3.4) follows.
When or , the proof of the inequality (3.4) is similar to the above argument. The proof of Theorem 3.2 is complete. □
Corollary 3.3 Under the conditions of Theorem 3.2,
(1) if , then
(2) if , then
(3) if , we have
Corollary 3.4 Under the conditions of Theorem 3.2,
(1) if , then

(2) if , then
(3) if , then

Corollary 3.5 Under the conditions of Theorem 3.2,
(1) if , then
(2) if , then
(3) if , then
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This work was supported partially by Science Research Funding of Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities under Grant No. NMD1103 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10962004.
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Bai, SP., Wang, SH. & Qi, F. Some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for n-time differentiable -convex functions. J Inequal Appl 2012, 267 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2012-267
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Keywords
- Hermite-Hadamard’s integral inequality
- differentiable function
- -convex function