On a more accurate reverse Mulholland-type inequality with parameters

Abstract

By the use of the weight coefficients, the idea of introducing parameters and Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality, a more accurate reverse Mulholland-type inequality with parameters and the equivalent forms are given. The equivalent statements of the best possible constant factor related to a few parameters and some particular cases are also considered.

1 Introduction

If $p > 1,\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} = 1,a_{m},b_{n} \ge 0,0 < \sum_{m = 1}^{\infty } a_{m}^{p} < \infty$, and $0 < \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty } b_{n} ^{q} < \infty$, then we have the following Hardy–Hilbert’s inequality with the best possible constant factor $\pi /\sin (\frac{\pi }{p})$ (cf. [1], Theorem 315):

$$ \sum_{m = 1}^{\infty } \sum _{n = 1}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}b_{n}}{m + n} < \frac{\pi }{\sin (\pi /p)} \Biggl(\sum_{m = 1} ^{\infty } a_{m}^{p} \Biggr)^{1/p} \Biggl(\sum_{n = 1}^{\infty } b_{n}^{q} \Biggr)^{1/q}. $$

(1)

Mulholland’s inequality with the same best possible constant factor was provided as follows (cf. [1], Theorem 343, replacing $\frac{a_{m}}{m},\frac{b _{n}}{n}$ by $a_{m},b_{n}$):

$$ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}b_{n}}{ \ln mn} < \frac{\pi }{\sin (\pi /p)} \Biggl(\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{1}{m ^{1 - p}}a_{m}^{p} \Biggr)^{1/p} \Biggl(\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{1}{n^{1 - q}}b _{n}^{q} \Biggr)^{1/q}. $$

(2)

If $f(x),g(y) \ge 0,0 < \int _{0}^{\infty } f^{p}(x)\,dx < \infty$, and $0 < \int _{0}^{\infty } g^{q}(y)\,dy < \infty$, then we still have the following Hardy–Hilbert’s integral inequality (cf. [1], Theorem 316):

$$ \int _{0}^{\infty } \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{f(x)g(y)}{x + y} \,dx\,dy < \frac{ \pi }{\sin (\pi /p)} \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } f^{p}(x)\,dx \biggr)^{1/p} \biggl( \int _{0} ^{\infty } g^{q}(y)\,dy \biggr)^{1/q}, $$

(3)

where the constant factor $\pi /\sin (\frac{\pi }{p})$ is the best possible. Inequalities (1), (2), and (3) with their extensions are important in analysis and its applications (cf. [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]).

In 1934, a half-discrete Hilbert-type inequality was given as follows (cf. [1], Theorem 351): If $K(t)\ (t > 0)$ is decreasing, $p > 1, \frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} = 1,0 < \phi (s) = \int _{0}^{\infty } K(t)t ^{s - 1} \,dt < \infty$, then we have

$$ \int _{0}^{\infty } x^{p - 2} \Biggl(\sum _{n = 1}^{\infty } K(nx)a_{n} \Biggr)^{p}\,dx < \phi ^{p} \biggl(\frac{1}{q} \biggr) \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty } a_{n}^{p}. $$

(4)

In the last ten years, some new extensions of (4) with their applications and the reverses were provided by [13,14,15,16,17].

In 2016, by the use of the technique of real analysis, Hong [18] considered some equivalent statements of the extensions of (1) with the best possible constant factor related to a few parameters. The other similar works about Hilbert-type integral inequalities were given by [19,20,21,22].

In this paper, following the way of [18], by the use of the weight coefficients, the idea of introducing parameters and Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality, a more accurate reverse Mulholland-type inequality with parameters and the equivalent forms are given in Theorem 1. The equivalent statements of the best possible constant factor related to a few parameters and some particular cases are considered in Theorem 2 and Remarks 1–2.

2 Some lemmas

In what follows, we assume that $p < 0\ (0 < q < 1),\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} = 1,\xi,\eta \in [0,\frac{1}{2}], \mathrm{s} \in \mathrm{N} = \{ 1,2, \ldots \}, 0 < c_{1} \le \cdots \le c_{s}, 0 < \lambda _{i} < \lambda \le s,\lambda _{i} \le 1\ (i = 1,2)$, $a_{m},b_{n} \ge 0$, such that

$$\begin{aligned} &0 < \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} < \infty\quad \text{and}\\ & 0 < \sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - p}} b_{n}^{q} < \infty. \end{aligned}$$

For $\gamma = \lambda _{1},\lambda - \lambda _{2}$, we set

$$ k_{s}(\gamma ): = \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{t^{\gamma - 1}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} (t^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} \,dt. $$

By Example 1 of [23], it follows that

$$ k_{s}(\gamma ) = \frac{\pi s}{\lambda \sin (\frac{\pi s\gamma }{ \lambda } )}\sum_{k = 1}^{s} c_{k}^{\frac{s\gamma }{\lambda } - 1} \prod_{j = 1(j \ne k)}^{s} \frac{1}{c_{j} - c_{k}} \in \mathrm{R}_{ +} = (0,\infty ). $$

(5)

In particular, for $s = 1$, we have

$$ k_{1}(\gamma ) = \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{t^{\gamma - 1}}{t^{\lambda } + c_{1}} \,dt= \frac{\pi }{\lambda \sin (\frac{\pi \gamma }{\lambda } )}c_{1}^{\frac{\eta }{\lambda } - 1}; $$

for $s = 2$, we have

$$ k_{2}(\gamma ) = \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{t^{\gamma - 1}}{(t^{\lambda /2} + c_{1})(t^{\lambda /2} + c_{2})} \,dt= \frac{2\pi }{\lambda \sin (\frac{2 \pi \gamma }{\lambda } )} \bigl(c_{1}^{\frac{2\gamma }{\lambda } - 1} - c _{2}^{\frac{2\gamma }{\lambda } - 1} \bigr)\frac{1}{c_{2} - c_{1}}. $$

Lemma 1

Define the following weight coefficients:

$$\begin{aligned} &\omega _{s}(\lambda _{2},m): = \ln ^{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}(m - \xi ) \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{n - \eta } \\ &\quad \bigl(m \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\} \bigr), \end{aligned}$$

(6)

$$\begin{aligned} &\varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n): = \ln ^{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}(n - \eta ) \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} - 1}(m - \xi )}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{m - \xi } \\ &\quad \bigl(n \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\} \bigr). \end{aligned}$$

(7)

For $\lambda _{2} \le 1$, we have

$$ \omega _{s}(\lambda _{2},m) < k_{s}(\lambda - \lambda _{2}) \quad \bigl(m \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\} \bigr); $$

(8)

for $\lambda _{1} \le 1$, we have

$$ k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}( \lambda _{1},n) \bigr) < \varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) < k_{s}(\lambda _{1})\quad \bigl(n \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\} \bigr), $$

(9)

where $\theta _{s}(\lambda _{1})$ is indicated by

$$ \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n): = \frac{1}{k_{s}(\lambda _{1})} \int _{0}^{\frac{ \ln (2 - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )}} \frac{u^{\lambda _{1} - 1}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} \,du= O \biggl( \frac{1}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1}}(n - \eta )} \biggr) \in (0,1). $$

(10)

Proof

Since for $0 < \lambda _{2} \le 1,0 < \lambda \le s,y > \frac{3}{2}$, we find that

$$\begin{aligned} &( - 1)^{i}\frac{d^{i}}{dy^{i}}\ln ^{\lambda _{2} - 1}(y - \eta ) \ge 0, \qquad ( - 1)^{i}\frac{d^{i}}{dx^{i}}\frac{1}{y - \eta } > 0\quad \text{and} \\ &( - 1)^{i}\frac{d^{i}}{dy^{i}}\frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [\ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}( y - \eta )]} > 0\quad (i = 1,2). \end{aligned}$$

It follows that

$$ ( - 1)^{i}\frac{d^{i}}{dy^{i}}\frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{2} - 1}(y - \eta )}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [\ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}( y - \eta )]}\frac{1}{y - \eta } > 0 \quad (i = 0,1,2). $$

By Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality (cf. [24]), we find

$$\begin{aligned} \omega _{s}(\lambda _{2},m) &< \ln ^{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}(m - \xi ) \int _{\frac{3}{2}}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{2} - 1}(y - \eta )}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(y - \eta )]} \frac{1}{y - \eta } \,dy \\ & = \ln ^{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}(m - \xi ) \int _{\frac{3}{2}}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{\lambda _{2} - \lambda - 1}(y - \eta )}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} \{ [ \frac{ \ln (m - \xi )}{\ln (y - \eta )}]^{\lambda /s} + c_{k}\}} \frac{1}{y - \eta } \,dy. \end{aligned}$$

Setting $u = \frac{\ln (m - \xi )}{\ln (y - \eta )}$, it follows that $du = \frac{ - \ln (m - \xi )}{\ln ^{2}(y - \eta )}\frac{1}{y - \eta } \,dy$ and

$$ \omega _{s}(\lambda _{2},m) < \int _{0}^{\frac{\ln (m - \xi )}{\ln ( \frac{3}{2} - \eta )}} \frac{u^{(\lambda - \lambda _{2}) - 1}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} \,du < \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{u ^{(\lambda - \lambda _{2}) - 1}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c _{k})} \,du = k_{s}(\lambda - \lambda _{2}), $$

namely (8) follows.

In the same way, for $\lambda _{1} \le 1$, by Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality, we find

$$ \varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) < \ln ^{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}(n - \eta ) \int _{\frac{3}{2}}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} - 1}(x - \xi )}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(x - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{x - \xi } \,dx. $$

Setting $u = \frac{\ln (x - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )}$, it follows that

$$ \varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) < \int _{\frac{\ln (\frac{3}{2} - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )}}^{\infty } \frac{u ^{\lambda _{1} - 1}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} \,du \le \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{u^{\lambda _{1} - 1}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} \,du = k_{s}(\lambda _{i}). $$

By the decreasing property, we also find

$$\begin{aligned} &\varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) > \ln ^{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}(n - \eta ) \int _{2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} - 1}(x - \xi )}{\prod_{k = 1} ^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(x - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{x - \xi } \,dx \\ &\phantom{\varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) }= \int _{\frac{\ln (2 - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )}}^{\infty } \frac{u^{ \lambda _{1} - 1}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} \,du = k _{s}(\lambda _{1}) \bigl[1 - \theta _{s}( \lambda _{1},n) \bigr] > 0, \\ &0 < \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \le \frac{1}{k_{s}(\lambda _{1})} \int _{0}^{\frac{\ln (2 - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )}} \frac{u^{\lambda _{1} - 1}}{c _{1}^{s}} \,du = \frac{1}{\lambda _{1}k_{s}(\lambda _{1})c_{1}^{s}} \biggl[\frac{ \ln (2 - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )} \biggr]^{\lambda _{1}}. \end{aligned}$$

Hence, (9) and (10) follow. □

Lemma 2

We have the following inequality:

$$\begin{aligned} I: ={}& \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}b_{n}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \\ >{}& k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &{}\times \Biggl\{ \sum_{n=2}^{\infty} \bigl(1-\theta_{s}(\lambda_{1},n) \bigr) \frac{\ln^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda_{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda_{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta)^{1-q}}b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(11)

Proof

By reverse Hölder’s inequality (cf. [24]), we obtain

$$\begin{aligned} I: ={}& \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \biggl[ \frac{\ln ^{(\lambda _{2} - 1)p}(n - \xi )}{(n - \eta )^{1/p}}\frac{ \ln ^{(1 - \lambda _{1})/q}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{ - 1/q}}a_{m} \biggr] \\ &{}\times \biggl[\frac{\ln ^{(\lambda _{1} - 1)/q}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1/q}}\frac{ \ln ^{(1 - \lambda _{2})/p}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{ - 1/p}}b_{n} \biggr] \\ \ge{}& \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \Biggl[\ln ^{\lambda _{1}}(m - \xi )\sum_{n = 2} ^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{n - \eta } \Biggr]\\ &{}\times\frac{\ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}}a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &{}\times \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \Biggl[ \ln ^{\lambda _{2}}(n - \eta )\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} - 1}(m - \xi )}{\prod_{k = 1} ^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{m - \xi } \Biggr]\\ &{}\times\frac{\ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}}b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ ={}& \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \omega _{s} (\lambda _{2},m)\frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}}a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &{}\times\Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \varpi _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}}b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

Then, by (8) and (9), we have (11). □

Remark 1

By (11), for $\lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2} = \lambda$, we find

$$\begin{aligned} &\omega _{s}(\lambda _{2},m) = \ln ^{\lambda _{1}}(m - \xi )\sum_{n = 2} ^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{1}{n - \eta } \quad \bigl(m \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\} \bigr), \\ &0 < \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} < \infty,\qquad 0 < \sum _{n = 2}^{ \infty } \frac{\ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - p}} b_{n}^{q} < \infty, \end{aligned}$$

and the following inequality:

$$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}b_{n}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \\ &\quad > k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) \Biggl[\sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr]^{ \frac{1}{p}} \\ &\qquad{}\times\Biggl[\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n} ^{q} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(12)

In particular, for $\xi = \eta = 0$, we have $\tilde{\theta }_{s}( \lambda _{1},n) = O(\frac{1}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1}}n}) \in (0,1)$, and

$$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}b_{n}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( \ln ^{\lambda /s}m + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}n)} \\ &\quad > k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) \Biggl[\sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}m}{m^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{p}} \Biggl[ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \tilde{\theta }_{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}n}{n^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(13)

Hence, (12) is a more accurate extension of (13).

Lemma 3

For $0 < \varepsilon < q\lambda _{2}$, we have

$$ L: = \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } O \biggl( \frac{1}{ \ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(n - \eta )} \biggr)\frac{1}{n - \eta } = O(1). $$

(14)

Proof

There exist constants $m,M > 0$ such that

$$ 0 < m\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{1}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(n - \eta )} \frac{1}{n - \eta } \le L \le M \Biggl[\frac{(2 - \eta )^{ - 1}}{ \ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(2 - \eta )} + \sum _{n = 3}^{ \infty } \frac{1}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(n - \eta )} \frac{1}{n - \eta } \Biggr]. $$

By Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality, it follows that

$$\begin{aligned} 0 &< L \le M \biggl[\frac{(2 - \eta )^{ - 1}}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(2 - \eta )} + \int _{\frac{5}{2}}^{\infty } \frac{1}{ \ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(y - \eta )} \frac{1}{y - \eta } \,dy \biggr] \\ & = M \biggl[\frac{(2 - \eta )^{ - 1}}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(2 - \eta )} + \frac{1}{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon } \ln ^{ - \lambda _{1} - \varepsilon } \biggl( \frac{5}{2} - \eta \biggr) \biggr] \\ &\le M \biggl[\frac{(2 - \eta )^{ - 1}}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} + q\lambda _{2} + 1}(2 - \eta )} + \frac{1}{\lambda _{1}}\ln ^{ - \lambda _{1} - q\lambda _{2}} \biggl( \frac{5}{2} - \eta \biggr) \biggr] < \infty. \end{aligned}$$

Hence, (14) follows. □

Lemma 4

The constant factor $k_{s}(\lambda _{1})$ in (12) is the best possible.

Proof

For $0 < \varepsilon < q\lambda {}_{2}$, we set

$$ \tilde{a}_{m}: = \frac{\ln ^{\lambda _{1} - \frac{\varepsilon }{p} - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi },\qquad\tilde{b}_{n}: = \frac{ \ln ^{\lambda _{2} - \frac{\varepsilon }{q} - 1}(n - \eta )}{n - \eta }\quad \bigl(m,n \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\} \bigr). $$

If there exists a constant $M \ge k_{s}(\lambda _{1})$ such that (12) is valid when replacing $k_{s}(\lambda _{1})$ by M, then, in particular, we have

$$\begin{aligned} \tilde{I}&: = \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \tilde{a}_{m}\tilde{b}_{n}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \\ &> M \Biggl[\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} \tilde{a}_{m}^{p} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{p}} \Biggl[\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)\frac{ \ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - p}} \tilde{b}_{n}^{q} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

In view of (10) and (14), we obtain

$$\begin{aligned} \tilde{I} > {}&M \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} \frac{ \ln ^{p\lambda _{1} - \varepsilon - p}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{p}} \Biggr\} ^{ \frac{1}{p}} \\ &{}\times \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)\frac{ \ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} \frac{ \ln ^{q\lambda _{2} - \varepsilon - q}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{q}} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ ={}& M \Biggl[\frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \sum_{m = 3} ^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \Biggr]^{ \frac{1}{p}}\\ &{}\times \Biggl[\sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(n - \eta )}{n - \eta } - \sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } O \biggl(\frac{1}{\ln ^{\lambda _{1}}(n - \eta )} \biggr) \frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(n - \eta )}{n - \eta } \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ >&{} M \biggl[\frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \int _{2} ^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(x - \xi )}{x - \xi } \,dx \biggr]^{ \frac{1}{p}} \\ &{}\times\Biggl[ \int _{2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(y - \eta )}{y - \eta } \,dy - \sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } O \biggl(\frac{1}{ \ln ^{\lambda _{1} + \varepsilon + 1}(n - \eta )} \biggr)\frac{1}{n - \eta } \Biggr]^{ \frac{1}{q}} \\ ={}& \frac{M}{\varepsilon } \biggl[\frac{\varepsilon \ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \ln ^{ - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi ) \biggr]^{\frac{1}{p}} \bigl[ \ln ^{ - \varepsilon } (2 - \eta ) - \varepsilon O(1) \bigr]^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

By (8), setting $\hat{\lambda }_{2} = \lambda _{2} - \frac{\varepsilon }{q} \in (0,\lambda )(\hat{\lambda }_{2} \le 1,\hat{\lambda }_{1} = \lambda _{1} + \frac{\varepsilon }{q})$, we find

$$\begin{aligned} \tilde{I}={}& \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \Biggl\{ \ln ^{(\lambda _{1} + \frac{\varepsilon }{q})}(m - \xi )\sum_{n = 2} ^{\infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c _{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \frac{ \ln ^{(\lambda _{2} - \frac{\varepsilon }{q}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{n - \eta } \Biggr\} \\ &{}\times\frac{\ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \\ ={}& \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \omega _{s} ( \hat{\lambda }_{2},m)\frac{ \ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \le k_{s}(\hat{ \lambda }_{1}) \Biggl[\frac{\ln ^{ - 1 - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \sum _{m = 3}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{ - 1 - \varepsilon } (m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \Biggr] \\ \le{}& k_{s}(\hat{\lambda }_{1}) \biggl[ \frac{\ln ^{ - 1 - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \int _{2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{ - 1 - \varepsilon } (x - \xi )}{x - \xi } \,dx \biggr] \\ ={}& \frac{1}{\varepsilon } k_{s}(\hat{\lambda }_{1}) \biggl[ \frac{\varepsilon \ln ^{ - 1 - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \ln ^{ - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi ) \biggr]. \end{aligned}$$

Then we have

$$\begin{aligned} &k_{s}(\hat{\lambda }_{1}) \biggl[\frac{\varepsilon \ln ^{ - 1 - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \ln ^{ - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi ) \biggr] \\ &\quad \ge \varepsilon \tilde{I} > M \biggl[\frac{\varepsilon \ln ^{ - \varepsilon - 1}(2 - \xi )}{2 - \xi } + \ln ^{ - \varepsilon } (2 - \xi ) \biggr]^{ \frac{1}{p}} \bigl[\ln ^{ - \varepsilon } (2 - \eta ) - \varepsilon O(1) \bigr]^{ \frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

For $\varepsilon \to 0^{ +}$, we find $k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) \ge M$. Hence, $M = k_{s}(\lambda _{1})$ is the best possible constant factor of (12).

Setting $\tilde{\lambda }_{1}: = \frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{ \lambda _{1}}{q},\tilde{\lambda }_{2}: = \frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p}$, we find

$$ \tilde{\lambda }_{1} + \tilde{\lambda }_{2} = \frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{ \lambda _{2}}{p} = \frac{\lambda }{p} + \frac{\lambda }{q} = \lambda, $$

and we can rewrite (11) as follows:

$$\begin{aligned} I >{}& k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl[\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p(1 - \tilde{\lambda }_{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a _{m}^{p} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\times{}\Biggl[ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)\frac{\ln ^{q(1 - \tilde{\lambda }_{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(15)

 □

Lemma 5

If $\lambda \in (\lambda _{1} + (1 - q)\lambda _{2},(1 - p)\lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2})$, the constant factor $k_{s}^{ \frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1})$ in (15) is the best possible, then we have $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$.

Proof

For $\lambda _{1} + (1 - q)\lambda _{2} < \lambda \le \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$, we obtain

$$\begin{aligned} &\tilde{\lambda }_{1} \ge \frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{ \lambda - \lambda _{2}}{q} = \lambda - \lambda _{2} > 0, \qquad \tilde{\lambda }_{1} = \frac{\lambda }{p} - \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{ \lambda _{1}}{q} < \lambda, \\ &\quad 0 < \tilde{\lambda }_{1} < \lambda,0 < \tilde{\lambda }_{2} = \lambda - \tilde{\lambda }_{1} < \lambda; \end{aligned}$$

for $\lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2} < \lambda < (1 - p)\lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$, we still obtain

$$\begin{aligned} &\tilde{\lambda }_{2} \ge \frac{\lambda _{2}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p} = \lambda _{2} > 0,\qquad \tilde{\lambda }_{2} = \frac{ \lambda }{q} - \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p} < \lambda , \\ &\quad 0 < \tilde{\lambda }_{2} < \lambda,0 < \tilde{\lambda }_{1} = \lambda - \tilde{\lambda }_{2} < \lambda. \end{aligned}$$

Hence, we have $\tilde{\lambda }_{i} \in (0,\lambda )\ (i = 1,2)$, and then $k _{s}(\tilde{\lambda }_{1}) \in \mathrm{R}_{ +}$.

If the constant factor $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k _{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1})$ in (15) is the best possible, then, in view of (12), the unique best possible constant factor must be the form of $k_{s}(\tilde{\lambda }_{1})$, namely

$$ k_{s}(\tilde{\lambda }_{1})= k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}( \lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1}). $$

By reverse Hölder’s inequality, we find

$$\begin{aligned} k_{s}(\tilde{\lambda }_{1})& = k_{\lambda } \biggl(\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q} \biggr) \\ &= \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c _{k})} u^{\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q} - 1} \,du = \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c _{k})} \bigl(u^{\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2} - 1}{p}} \bigr) \bigl(u^{\frac{\lambda _{1} - 1}{q}} \bigr)\,du \\ &\ge \biggl( \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} u^{\lambda - \lambda _{2} - 1} \,du \biggr)^{\frac{1}{p}} \biggl( \int _{0}^{ \infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})} u^{ \lambda _{1} - 1} \,du \biggr)^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ &= k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}). \end{aligned}$$

(16)

We conclude that (16) keeps the form of equality if and only if there exist constants A and B such that they are not all zero and (cf. [24])

$$ Au^{\lambda - \lambda _{2} - 1} = Bu^{\lambda _{1} - 1}\quad \text{a.e. in } \mathrm{R}_{ +} = (0,\infty ). $$

Assuming that $A \ne 0$ (otherwise, $B = A = 0$), it follows that $u^{\lambda - \lambda _{2} - \lambda _{1}} = \frac{A}{B}$ a.e. in $\mathrm{R}_{ +}$, and then $\lambda - \lambda _{2} - \lambda _{1} = 0$, namely $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$. □

3 Main results and particular cases

Theorem 1

Inequality (11) is equivalent to the following inequalities:

$$\begin{aligned} &J: = \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p(\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n))^{p - 1}(n - \eta )} \Biggl[\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr]^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\phantom{J: }> k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}}, \end{aligned}$$

(17)

$$\begin{aligned} &J_{1}: = \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{q(\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{b_{n}}{\prod_{k = 1} ^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} ^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ &\phantom{J_{1}: }> k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(18)

If the constant factor in (11) is the best possible, then so is the constant factor in (17) and (18).

Proof

Suppose that (17) is valid. By Hölder’s inequality, we have

$$\begin{aligned} I = {}&\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \Biggl\{ \frac{ \ln ^{\frac{ - 1}{p} + (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})}(n - \eta )}{(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n))^{1/q}(n - \eta )^{1/p}}\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} \\ &{}\times \biggl\{ \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)^{\frac{1}{q}}\frac{ \ln ^{\frac{1}{p} - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{ - 1/p}}b_{n} \biggr\} \\ \ge{}& J \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)\frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(19)

Then, by (17), we obtain (11). On the other hand, assuming that (11) is valid, we set

$$\begin{aligned} &b_{n}: =\frac{ \ln ^{p(\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n))^{p - 1}(n - \eta )}\Biggl\{ \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} ^{p - 1},\\ &\quad n \in \mathbf{N}\backslash \{1\}. \end{aligned}$$

If $J = 0$, then (17) is naturally valid; if $J = \infty$, then it is impossible that makes (17) valid, namely $J < \infty$. Suppose that $0 < J < \infty$. By (11), we have

$$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)\frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \\ &\quad = J^{p} = I > k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\qquad{}\times \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}, \\ &J = \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\phantom{J }> k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}}, \end{aligned}$$

namely (17) follows. Hence, inequality (11) is equivalent to (17).

Suppose that (18) is valid. By Hölder’s inequality, we have

$$\begin{aligned} I={}& \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \biggl\{ \frac{ \ln ^{\frac{1}{q} - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{ - 1/q}}a_{m} \biggr\} \\ &{}\times\Biggl\{ \frac{ \ln ^{\frac{ - 1}{q} + (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1/q}}\sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{b _{n}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k} \ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} \\ \ge{}& \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}}J_{1}. \end{aligned}$$

(20)

Then, by (18), we obtain (11). On the other hand, assuming that (11) is valid, we set

$$\begin{aligned} & a_{m}: =\frac{ \ln ^{q(\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \Biggl\{ \sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{b_{n}}{\prod_{k = 1} ^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} ^{q - 1},\\ &\quad m \in \mathrm{N}\backslash \{ 1\}. \end{aligned}$$

If $J_{1} = 0$, then (18) is naturally valid; if $J_{1} = \infty$, then it is impossible that makes (18) valid, namely $J_{1} < \infty$. Suppose that $0 < J_{1} < \infty$. By (11), we have

$$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \\ &\quad = J_{1}^{q} = I > k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}( \lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\qquad{}\times \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}, \\ &J_{1} = \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})] - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ &\phantom{J_{1} }> k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr) \frac{ \ln ^{q[1 - (\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{1}}{q} + \frac{\lambda _{2}}{p})] - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}, \end{aligned}$$

namely (18) follows. Hence, inequality (11) is equivalent to (17) and (18).

If the constant factor in (11) is the best possible, then so is the constant factor in (17) and (18). Otherwise, by (19) (or (20)), we would reach a contradiction that the constant factor in (11) is not the best possible. □

Theorem 2

If $\lambda \in (\lambda _{1} + (1 - q)\lambda _{2},(1 - p)\lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2})$, then the following statements (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) are equivalent:

• (i) $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1})$ is independent of $p,q$;

• (ii) $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1})$ is expressed by a single integral;

• (iii) $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1})$ in (10) is the best possible constant factor;

• (iv) $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$.

If statement (iv) follows, namely $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$, then we have (12) and the following equivalent inequalities with the best possible constant factor $k_{s}(\lambda _{1})$:

$$\begin{aligned} & \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{p\lambda _{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n))^{p - 1}(n - \eta )} \Biggl[\sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k} \ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr]^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\quad > k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) \Biggl\{ \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{p(1 - \lambda _{1}) - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}}, \end{aligned}$$

(21)

$$\begin{aligned} & \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{q\lambda _{1} - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{b_{n}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{\lambda /s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{\lambda /s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} ^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ &\quad > k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) \Biggl[\sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \bigl(1 - \theta _{s}(\lambda _{1},n) \bigr)\frac{\ln ^{q(1 - \lambda _{2}) - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(22)

Proof

(i)⇒(ii). By (i), we have

$$ k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1}) = \lim_{q \to 1^{ +}} k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}( \lambda - \lambda _{2})k _{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1}) = k_{s}(\lambda _{1}), $$

namely $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}( \lambda _{1})$ is expressed by a single integral

$$ k_{s}(\lambda _{1}) = \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{1}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u ^{\lambda /s} + c_{k})}u^{\lambda _{1} - 1} \,du. $$

(ii)⇒(iv). If $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{ \frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1})$ is expressed by a convergent single integral $k _{s}(\frac{\lambda - \lambda _{2}}{p} + \frac{\lambda _{1}}{q})$, then (16) keeps the form of equality. In view of the proof of Lemma 5, it follows that $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$.

(iv)⇒(i). If $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$, then $k_{s}^{ \frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1}) = k_{s}(\lambda _{1})$, which is independent of $p,q$. Hence, it follows that (i) ⇔ (ii) ⇔ (iv).

(iii)⇒(iv). By Lemma 5, we have $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$.

(iv)⇒(iii). By Lemma 4, for $\lambda = \lambda _{1} + \lambda _{2}$, $k_{s}^{\frac{1}{p}}(\lambda - \lambda _{2})k_{s}^{\frac{1}{q}}(\lambda _{1})( = k_{s}(\lambda _{1}))$ is the best possible constant factor of (11). Therefore, we have (iii) ⇔ (iv).

Hence, statements (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) are equivalent. □

Remark 2

For $\lambda = 1,\lambda _{1} = \lambda _{2} = \frac{1}{2}$,

$$\begin{aligned} &\hat{k}_{s} \biggl(\frac{1}{2} \biggr): = \int _{0}^{\infty } \frac{t^{ - 1/2}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} (t^{1/s} + c_{k})} \,dt = \frac{\pi s}{\sin (\frac{ \pi s}{2})}\sum_{k = 1}^{s} c_{k}^{\frac{s}{2} - 1} \prod_{j = 1(j \ne k)}^{s} \frac{1}{c_{j} - c_{k}}, \\ &\hat{\theta }_{s} \biggl(\frac{1}{2},n \biggr): = \frac{1}{k_{s}(\frac{1}{2})} \int _{0}^{\frac{\ln (2 - \xi )}{\ln (n - \eta )}} \frac{u^{ - 1/2}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} ( u^{1/s} + c_{k})} \,du= O \biggl( \frac{1}{\ln ^{1/2}(n - \eta )} \biggr) \in (0,1), \end{aligned}$$

in (12), (21), and (22), we have the following equivalent inequalities with the best possible constant factor $\hat{k}_{s}(\frac{1}{2})$:

$$\begin{aligned} &\sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}b_{n}}{ \prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{1/s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{1/s}(n - \eta )]} \\ &\quad > \hat{k}_{s} \biggl(\frac{1}{2} \biggr) \Biggl[\sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{\frac{p}{2} - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr]^{ \frac{1}{p}} \Biggl[\sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \biggl(1 - \hat{\theta }_{s} \biggl( \frac{1}{2},n \biggr) \biggr) \frac{\ln ^{\frac{q}{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr]^{\frac{1}{q}}, \end{aligned}$$

(23)

$$\begin{aligned} & \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\frac{p}{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{(1 - \hat{\theta }_{s}(\frac{1}{2},n))^{p - 1}(n - \eta )} \Biggl[\sum_{m = 2} ^{\infty } \frac{a_{m}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{1/s}(m - \xi ) + c _{k}\ln ^{1/s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr]^{p} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{p}} \\ &\quad > \hat{k}_{s} \biggl(\frac{1}{2} \biggr) \Biggl\{ \sum _{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{ \ln ^{\frac{p}{2} - 1}(m - \xi )}{(m - \xi )^{1 - p}} a_{m}^{p} \Biggr\} ^{ \frac{1}{p}}, \end{aligned}$$

(24)

$$\begin{aligned} & \Biggl\{ \sum_{m = 2}^{\infty } \frac{\ln ^{\frac{q}{2} - 1}(m - \xi )}{m - \xi } \Biggl\{ \sum_{n = 2}^{\infty } \frac{b_{n}}{\prod_{k = 1}^{s} [ \ln ^{1/s}(m - \xi ) + c_{k}\ln ^{1/s}(n - \eta )]} \Biggr\} ^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ &\quad > \hat{k}_{s} \biggl(\frac{1}{2} \biggr) \Biggl\{ \sum _{n = 2}^{\infty } \biggl(1 - \hat{\theta }_{s} \biggl(\frac{1}{2},n \biggr) \biggr)\frac{\ln ^{\frac{q}{2} - 1}(n - \eta )}{(n - \eta )^{1 - q}} b_{n}^{q} \Biggr\} ^{\frac{1}{q}}. \end{aligned}$$

(25)

4 Conclusions

In this paper, by the use of the weight coefficients, the idea of introducing parameters and Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality, a more accurate reverse Mulholland-type inequality with parameters and the equivalent forms are given in Theorem 1. The equivalent statements of the best possible constant factor related to a few parameters and some particular cases are considered in Theorem 2 and Remarks 1–2. The lemmas and theorems provide an extensive account of this type of inequalities.