On a measure-theoretic reading of $β$-Grüss type inequalities
Abstract
We show that the principal -Gr\"uss inequalities for the positive integral can be obtained naturally from elementary measure theory. Once the positive -integral is recognised as integration with respect to a finite positive purely atomic measure, and this measure is normalised to a probability measure, the associated Chebyshev functional becomes simply a covariance. The corresponding inequalities then follow from standard facts valid on arbitrary probability spaces: Korkine's identity, H\"older's inequality on the product space, Cauchy's inequality for covariance, and the elementary variance bound for bounded functions. The Riemann--Stieltjes -estimates follow, in the signed case, by domination with respect to the total variation measure. Thus, rather than adding another member to this family of -Gr\"uss inequalities, this note identifies the elementary measure-theoretic mechanism that accounts for the family itself.
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@article{arxiv.2607.06439,
title = {On a measure-theoretic reading of $β$-Grüss type inequalities},
author = {K. Castillo and Â. Macedo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.06439},
year = {2026}
}