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In this note we provide a full conjugacy and subdifferential calculus for convex convex-composite functions in finite-dimensional space. Our approach, based on infimal convolution and cone-convexity, is straightforward and yields the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 James V. Burke , Tim Hoheisel , Quang V. Nguyen

The generalized divided differences are introduced. They are applied to investigate some properties characterizing generalized higher-order convexity. Among others some support-type property is proved.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-28 Szymon Wasowicz

Mercer inequality for convex functions is a variant of Jensen's inequality, with an operator version that is still valid without operator convexity. This paper is two folded. First, we present a Mercer-type inequality for operators without…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 H. R. Moradi , S. Furuichi , M. Sababheh

In the paper, the authors show that the weighted geometric mean and the logarithmic mean are Bernstein functions and establish integral representations of these means by Cauchy's integral theorem in the theory of complex functions.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Feng Qi , Xiao-Jing Zhang , Wen-Hui Li

In this paper, the bivariate log-convexity of the two-parameter homogeneous function in parameter pair is vestigated. From this the bivariate log-convexity of the more extended means with respect to a parameter pair is solved. It follows…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Zhen-Hang Yang

We establish a new refinement of the right-hand side of the Hermite-Hadamard inequality for simplices, based on the average values of a convex function over the faces of a simplex and over the values at their barycenters.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Monika Nowicka , Alfred Witkowski

The ordering between Wigner--Yanase--Dyson function and logarithmic mean is known. Also bounds for logarithmic mean are known. In this paper, we give two reverse inequalities for Wigner--Yanase--Dyson function and logarithmic mean. We also…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Shigeru Furuichi

Eigenvalues inequalities involving (log) convex/concav functions and Hermitian matrices, positive unital maps are considered. Simple proofs of Bhatia-Kittaneh inequality and Naimark dilation theorem are given.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jaspal Singh Aujla Jean-Christophe Bourin

In this paper we prove the concavity of the $k$-trace functions, $A\mapsto (\text{Tr}_k[\exp(H+\ln A)])^{1/k}$, on the convex cone of all positive definite matrices. $\text{Tr}_k[A]$ denotes the $k_{\mathrm{th}}$ elementary symmetric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-03 De Huang

In this paper, an integral identity for twice differentiable functions is generalized. Then, by using convexity of |f''| or q-th power of |f''| and with the aid of power mean and Holder's inequalities we achieved some new results. We also…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Mustafa Gurbuz , Abdullah Yaradilmis

Geometrically convex functions constitute an interesting class of functions obtained by replacing the arithmetic mean with the geometric mean in the definition of convexity. As recently suggested, geometric convexity may be a sensible…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-12 Mücahit Aygün , Fabio Bellini , Roger J. A. Laeven

In 1922, Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup established a remarkable characterization of the Euler gamma function using its log-convexity property. A decade later, Emil Artin investigated this result and used it to derive the basic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Jean-Luc Marichal , Naïm Zenaïdi

In this paper we prove different functional inequalities extending the classical Rogers-Shephard inequalities for convex bodies. The original inequalities provide an optimal relation between the volume of a convex body and the volume of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 David Alonso-Gutiérrez , Bernardo González Merino , C. Hugo Jiménez , Rafael Villa

In this paper, we introduce the concept of operator arithmetic-geometrically convex functions for positive linear operators and prove some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for these functions. As applications, we obtain trace inequalities…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Ali Taghavi , Vahid Darvish , Haji Mohammad Nazari

In the paper, the authors review origins, motivations, and generalizations of a series of inequalities involving several exponential functions and sums, establish three new inequalities involving finite exponential functions and sums by…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Feng Qi , Bai-Ni Guo

In our previous paper on this topic, we introduced the notion of k-Hessian measure associated with a continuous k-convex function in a domain \Om in Euclidean n-space, k=1,...,n, and proved a weak continuity result with respect to local…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Neil S. Trudinger , Xu-Jia Wang

We continue the analysis in [3] of matrix convex functions of a fixed order defined in a real interval by differential methods as opposed to the characterization in terms of divided differences given by Kraus [5]. We amend and improve some…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen , Jun Tomiyama

L$^\natural$ (natural)-convex functions encompass a large class of nonlinear functions over general integer domains and arise in a wide range of real-world applications. We explore the minimization of L$^\natural$-convex functions, of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Qimeng Yu , Simge Küçükyavuz

In this paper, we state some characterizations of $h$-convex function is defined on a convex set in a linear space. By doing so, we extend the Jensen-Mercer inequality for $h$-convex function. We will also define $h$-convex function for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 M. Abbasi , A. Morassaei , F. Mirzapour

Norm estimates are developed between the Bochner integral of a vector-valued function in Banach spaces having the Radon-Nikodym property and the convex combination of function values taken on a division of the interval [a,b].

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 P. Cerone , Y. J. Cho , S. S. Dragomir , J. K. Kim , S. S. Kim