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A number of inequalities for the weighted entropies is proposed, mirroring properties of a standard (Shannon) entropy and related quantities.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Yuri Suhov , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Some new sufficient conditions for the weighted Chebyshev's inequality for real numbers to hold are provided.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sever Silvestru Dragomir

The purpose of this note is to provide a detailed proof of Nazarov's inequality stated in Lemma A.1 in Chernozhukov, Chetverikov, and Kato (2017, Annals of Probability).

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Victor Chernozhukov , Denis Chetverikov , Kengo Kato

We give an elementary proof to Hasse theorem.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Jianhua Chen , Debiao He , Zhijin Hu , Yitao Chen , Hao Hu

We give a new simpler proof of a theorem of Jayne and Rogers.

Logic · Mathematics 2011-12-07 Luca Motto Ros , Brian Semmes

In the current note, we present a new, short proof of the famous AM-GM-HM inequality using only induction and basic calculus.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Konstantinos Gaitanas

In this paper we shall prove a sharpened version of the Finsler-Hadwiger inequality which is a strong generalization of Weitzenbock inequality. After that we give another refinement of this inequality and in the final part we provide some…

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Certain excess versions of the Minkowski and H\"older inequalities are given. These new results generalize and improve the Minkowski and H\"older inequalities.

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Iosif Pinelis

We give a short and relatively elementary proof of the Hilton-Milner Theorem.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Denys Bulavka , Russ Woodroofe

The Chernoff bound is one of the most widely used tools in theoretical computer science. It's rare to find a randomized algorithm that doesn't employ a Chernoff bound in its analysis. The standard proofs of Chernoff bounds are beautiful but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 William Kuszmaul

Based on various strategies, we obtain several simple proofs of the celebrated Sharkovsky cycle coexistence theorem.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-09-09 Bau-Sen Du

We prove the Levin-Ste\v{c}kin inequality using Chebyshev's inequality and symmetrization. Symmetry and slightly modified Chebyshev's inequality are also the key to an elementary proof of Clausing's inequality .

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Alfred Witkowski

We present an elementary proof for Ljunggren equation

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Zhengjun Cao , Lihua Liu

In this note we prove a weighted version of the Khintchine inequalities.

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Mark Veraar

We establish some new generalizations of Erd\H{o}s-Mordell inequality by adding weights to its terms. Using these generalizations, we derived strengthened versions of the original Erd\H{o}s-Mordell inequality. We also found two other…

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We present in this work a new and simple proof of the false centre theorem.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-28 Luis Montejano , Efren Morales-Amaya

We obtain some inequalities which are stronger than the Schur majorization inequalities.

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This article describes a new proof of the equality condition for the Brunn-Minkowski inequality.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-11 Daniel A. Klain

We present a short proof of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for mixed volumes of convex bodies.

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