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On new Milne-type inequalities for fractional integrals
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2023, Article number: 10 (2023)
Abstract
In this study, fractional versions of Milne-type inequalities are investigated for differentiable convex functions. We present Milne-type inequalities for bounded functions, Lipschitz functions, functions of bounded variation, etc., found in the literature. New results are established in the area of inequalities. This article is the first to study Milne-type inequalities for fractional integrals.
1 Introduction
Studies on numerical integration and error bounds in mathematics have an important place in the literature. Research on inequalities tries to find error bounds for various function classes such as those of bounded functions, Lipschitz functions, functions of bounded variation, etc. In addition, researchers obtained error bounds for differentiable, twice differentiable, or n-times differentiable mappings. Moreover, many authors have also obtained new bounds by utilizing the concepts of fractional calculus. Nowadays, authors have focused on inequalities of the trapezoid, midpoint, and Simpson type. Many authors have contributed to the extension and generalization of these integral inequalities. For instance, Dragomir and Agarwal presented some error estimates for the trapezoidal formula in [9]. Cerone and Dragomir considered trapezoidal-type rules and established explicit bounds through the modern theory of inequalities in [4, p. 93]. The authors examined both Riemann–Stieltjes and Riemann integrals for different states of the boundary. Alomari discussed Lipschitz functions in the context of the generalized trapezoidal inequality [2]. Dragomir studied functions of bounded variation in the context of the trapezoid formula [8]. Sarikaya and Aktan obtained some new inequalities of Simpson and trapezoid type for functions whose second derivative in absolute value is convex [27]. In the articles [28, 32], researchers considered fractional trapezoid-type inequalities. Kırmacı established midpoint-type inequalities for differentiable convex functions [19]. Dragomir presented obtained results for functions of bounded variation in [7]. Sarıkaya et al. obtained several new inequalities for twice differentiable functions in [29]. Fractional analogues of these results [16, 33] have also been discussed. Several mathematicians also established Simpson-type inequalities for differentiable convex mappings [10], s-convex functions [30], extended \(( s,m ) \)-convex mappings [12], bounded functions [6], twice differentiable convex functions [15, 24, 31], and fractional integrals [5, 14, 17, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 34].
A formal definition of a convex function may be stated as follows:
Definition 1
([11])
Let I be a convex set on \(\mathbb{R} \). The function \(\mathfrak{F}:I\rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) is called convex on I if it satisfies the following inequality:
for all \((\upsilon ,\gamma )\in I\) and \(\vartheta \in {}[ 0,1]\). The mapping \(\mathfrak{F}\) is concave on I if the inequality (1.1) holds in reversed direction for all \(\vartheta \in {}[ 0,1]\) and \(\upsilon ,\gamma \in I\).
In terms of Newton–Cotes formulas, Milne’s formula, which is of open type, is parallel to the Simpson’s formula, which is of closed type, since they hold under the same conditions. Suppose that \(\mathfrak{F}: [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is a four-times continuously differentiable mapping on \(( \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ) \), and let \(\Vert \mathfrak{F}^{ ( 4 ) } \Vert _{\infty }= \sup_{\upsilon \in ( \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ) } \vert \mathfrak{F}^{ ( 4 ) }(\upsilon ) \vert < \infty \). Then, one has the inequality [3]
In this paper we will obtain a fractional version of the left-hand side of (1.2) and will consider several new bounds by using different mapping classes.
The well-known Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals are given as follows:
Definition 2
Let \(\mathfrak{F}\in L_{1}[\kappa _{1},\kappa _{2}]\). The Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals \(\mathfrak{I}_{\kappa _{1}+}^{\alpha }\mathfrak{F}\) and \(\mathfrak{I}_{\kappa _{2}-}^{\alpha }\mathfrak{F}\) of order \(\alpha >0\) are defined by
and
respectively. Here, \(\Gamma (\alpha )\) is the Gamma function and \(\mathfrak{I}_{\kappa _{1}+}^{0}\mathfrak{F}(\upsilon )=\mathfrak{I}_{\kappa _{2}-}^{0}\mathfrak{F}(\upsilon )=\mathfrak{F}(\upsilon )\).
For more information about Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals, please refer to [13, 18, 21].
2 Milne-type inequalities for differentiable convex functions
In this part, we present a few inequalities of Milne-type for differentiable convex mappings.
Lemma 1
Let \(\mathfrak{F}:[\kappa _{1},\kappa _{2}]\rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) be a differentiable mapping \((\kappa _{1},\kappa _{2})\) such that \(\mathfrak{F}^{\prime }\in L_{1} ( [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] ) \). Then, the following equality holds:
Proof
By utilizing integration by parts, we have
Similarly, we obtain
From equations (2.1) and (2.2), the following result is obtained:
The proof of Lemma 1 is completed. □
Theorem 1
Assume that the assumptions of Lemma 1hold. Let \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert \) be a convex function on \([ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \). Then, we get the following inequality:
Proof
By taking the absolute value in Lemma 1 and utilizing the convexity of \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert \), we get
which gives inequality (2.3). □
Example 1
Let \([ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] = [ 0,1 ] \) and define the function \(\mathfrak{F}:[0,1]\rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) as \(\mathfrak{F}(\vartheta )= \frac{\vartheta ^{3}}{3}\) so that \(\mathfrak{F}^{\prime }(\vartheta )=\vartheta ^{2}\) and \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert \) is convex on \([ 0,1 ]\).
Under these assumptions, we have
By definition of Riemann–Liouville fractional integrals, we obtain
and
Thus we have
As a result, the left-hand side of inequality (2.3) reduces to
and
The results of Example 1 are shown in Fig. 1.
Remark 1
If we choose \(\alpha =1\) in Theorem 1, then we have
Theorem 2
Suppose that the assumptions of Lemma 1hold. Suppose also that the mapping \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert ^{q}\), \(q>1\), is convex on \([\kappa _{1},\kappa _{2}]\). Then, the following inequality holds:
whenever \(\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}=1\).
Proof
If the absolute value in Lemma 1 is taken, we get
With the help of Hölder inequality in (2.6) and by utilizing the convexity of \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert ^{q}\), we get
Similarly, the following inequality is obtained:
If (2.7) and (2.8) are substituted into (2.6), we have
The first inequality of (2.5) is proved. For the proof of the second inequality, let \(\kappa _{11}=3 \vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } ( \kappa _{1} ) \vert ^{q}\), \(\kappa _{21}= \vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } ( \kappa _{2} ) \vert ^{q}\), \(\kappa _{12}= \vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } ( \kappa _{1} ) \vert ^{q}\), and \(\kappa _{22}=3 \vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } ( \kappa _{2} ) \vert ^{q}\). Using the facts that
and \(1+3^{\frac{1}{q}}\leq 4\), the required result can be established directly. The proof of Theorem 2 is finished. □
Corollary 1
If Theorem 2is written with \(\alpha =1\), we get
Theorem 3
Assume that all the assumptions of Lemma 1are met. If the mapping \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert ^{q}\), \(q\geq 1\), is convex on \([\kappa _{1},\kappa _{2}]\), then we get the following inequality:
Proof
With help of the power-mean inequality in (2.6) and considering the convexity of \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime } \vert ^{q}\), we get
Similarly as in getting (2.9), we have
Substituting (2.9) and (2.10) into (2.6), we get
This completes the proof. □
Remark 2
If we consider \(\alpha =1\) in Theorem 3, then we obtain
3 Milne-type inequality for bounded functions involving fractional integrals
Theorem 4
Assume that the conditions of Lemma 1hold. If there exist \(m,M\in \mathbb{R} \) such that \(m\leq \mathfrak{F}^{\prime }(\vartheta )\leq M\) for \(\vartheta \in [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \), then
Proof
With the help of Lemma 1, we get
Taking the absolute value of (3.1), we have
From \(m\leq \mathfrak{F}(\vartheta )\leq M\) for \(\vartheta \in [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \), we get
and
Using (3.2) and (3.3), we have
The proof of the theorem is finished. □
Corollary 2
Considering \(\alpha =1\) in Theorem 4, we obtain
Corollary 3
Under the assumptions of Theorem 4, if there exists \(M\in \mathbb{R} ^{+}\) such that \(\vert \mathfrak{F}^{\prime }(\vartheta ) \vert \leq M\) for all \(\vartheta \in [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \), then we have
Remark 3
If we choose \(\alpha =1\) in Corollary 3, then we get
which was proved by Alomari and Liu [2].
4 Milne-type inequality for Lipschitz functions involving fractional integrals
In this part, we present some fractional Milne-type inequalities for Lipschitz functions.
Theorem 5
Suppose that the assumptions of Lemma 1hold. If \(\mathfrak{F}^{\prime }\) is an L-Lipschitz function on \([ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \), then we get the following inequality:
Proof
With help of Lemma 1 and since \(\mathfrak{F}^{\prime }\) is an L-Lipschitz function, we get
The proof of this theorem is completed. □
Corollary 4
If we consider \(\alpha =1\) in Theorem 5, then we get
5 Milne-type inequality for functions of bounded variation involving fractional integrals
In this part, we show Milne-type inequality for fractional integrals involving functions of bounded variation.
Theorem 6
Let \(\mathfrak{F}: [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) be a mapping of bounded variation on \([ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \). Then we get
where \(\bigvee_{c}^{d}(\mathfrak{F})\) denotes the total variation of \(\mathfrak{F}\) on \([ c,d ] \).
Proof
Define the function \(K_{\alpha }(\upsilon )\) by
By utilizing integration by parts, we get
That is,
It is well known that if \(g,\mathfrak{F}: [ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \rightarrow \mathbb{R} \) are such that g is continuous on \([ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \) and \(\mathfrak{F}\) is of bounded variation on \([ \kappa _{1},\kappa _{2} ] \), then \(\int _{\kappa _{1}}^{\kappa _{2}}g( \vartheta )\,d\mathfrak{F}(\vartheta )\) exists and
Otherwise, utilizing (5.2), we have
□
6 Conclusion
In this article, we established a fractional Milne-type inequality for differentiable mappings. In addition, we considered bounded functions, Lipschitz functions, functions of bounded variation, and obtained Milne-type inequalities for them. Moreover, generalizations of the results of Alomari and Liu [1] were presented. In a future work, curious readers can obtain new versions of Milne-type inequalities for different fractional integrals. What is more, researchers can obtain several new Milne-type inequalities using other notions of convexity.
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Budak, H., Kösem, P. & Kara, H. On new Milne-type inequalities for fractional integrals. J Inequal Appl 2023, 10 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-023-02921-5
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