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Lower estimation of the difference among quasi-arithmetic means

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2018-04-19 v1

Abstract

Quasi-arithmetic means are defined for every continuous, strictly monotone function f ⁣:URf \colon U \rightarrow \mathbb{R}, (UU -- an interval). For an nn-tuple aUna \in U^n with corresponding vector of weights w=(w1,,wn)w=(w_1,\dots,w_n) (wi>0w_i>0, wi=1\sum w_i=1) it equals f1(i=1nwif(ai))f^{-1}\left( \sum_{i=1}^{n} w_i f(a_i)\right). In 1960s Cargo and Shisha defined a metric in a family of quasi-arithmetic means defined on a common interval as the maximal possible difference between these means taken over all admissible vectors with corresponding weights. During the years 2013--16 we proved that, having two quasi-arithmetic means, we can majorized distance between them in terms of Arrow-Pratt index f/ff''/f'. In this paper we are going to proof that this operator can be also used to establish certain lower boundaries of this distance.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07020,
  title  = {Lower estimation of the difference among quasi-arithmetic means},
  author = {Paweł Pasteczka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07020},
  year   = {2018}
}

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