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Generalized trigonometric functions and generalized hyperbolic functions can be converted to each other by the duality formulas previously discovered by the authors. In this paper, we apply the duality formulas to prove dual pairs of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Hiroki Miyakawa , Shingo Takeuchi

In this paper we prove monotonicity of some ratios of $q$--Kummer confluent hypergeometric and $q$--hypergeometric functions. The results are also closely connected with Tur\'an type inequalities. In order to obtain main results we apply…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Khaled Mehrez , Sergei M. Sitnik

In the present paper, we first prove the logarithmic convexity of the elementary function $\frac{b^x-a^x}x$, where $x\ne0$ and $b>a>0$. Basing on this, we then provide a simple proof for Schur-convex properties of the extended mean values,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-07-19 Feng Qi , Bai-Ni Guo

Convexity and convex functions play an important role in theoretical physics. To initiate a study of the possible uses of convex functions in General Relativity, we discuss the consequences of a spacetime $(M,g_{\mu \nu})$ or an initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-07 Gary W. Gibbons , Akihiro Ishibashi

Convexity and convex functions play an important role in theoretical physics. To initiate a study of the possible uses of convex functions in General Relativity, we discuss the consequences of a spacetime $(M,g_{\mu \nu})$ or an initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Gary W. Gibbons , Akihiro Ishibashi

This paper explores the calculus of dual-valued functions and investigates the gamma function, beta function and generalized hypergeometric functions by incorporating dual numbers as parameters and variables. We examine its fundamental…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Ravi Dwivedi , Juan Carlos Cortés

In this paper we apply generalized Stieltjes transform representation to study the generalized hypergeometric function. Among the results thus proved are new integral representations, inequalities, properties of the Pad\'{e} table and the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Dmitry Karp , Elena Prilepkina

This article studies the monotonicity, log-convexity of the modified Lommel functions by using its power series and infinite product representation. Same properties for the ratio of the modified Lommel functions with the Lommel function,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Saiful R Mondal

Extending results of Harg{\'e} and Hu for the Gaussian measure, we prove inequalities for the covariance Cov$_\mu(f, g)$ where $\mu$ is a general product probability measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $f,g: \mathbb{R}^d \to \mathbb{R}$ satisfy…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Michel Bonnefont , Erwan Hillion , Adrien Saumard

In this paper some Tur\'an type inequalities for classical and generalized Mittag-Leffler functions are considered. The method is based on proving monotonicity for special ratio of sections for series of Mittag-Leffler functions. Some…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Sergei M. Sitnik , Khaled Mehrez

Majorization inequalities for symmetric polynomials have interested mathematicians for centuries, from the AM-GM inequality for two variables going back at least to Euclid, through classical results of Newton, Muirhead and Gantmacher, to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Colin McSwiggen , Siddhartha Sahi

Euler's transformation formula for the Gauss hypergeometric function 2F1 is extended to hypergeometric functions of higher order. Unusually, the generalized transformation constrains the hypergeometric function parameters algebraically but…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert S. Maier

Let R+ = (0,infinity) and let M be the family of all mean values of two numbers in R+ (some examples are the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means). Given m1, m2 in M, we say that a function f : R+ to R+ is (m1,m2)-convex if f(m1(x,y))…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-05-11 G. D. Anderson , M. K. Vamanamurthy , M. Vuorinen

This paper investigates the generalized convexity properties of the Lambert $W$ function, defined as the solution to $W(z)e^{W(z)}=z$. Focusing on $H_{p,q}$-convexity and concavity with respect to H\"older means, we derive necessary and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Gendi Wang

The aim of this paper is to generalize the Hermite--Hadamard inequality for functions convex on the coordinates. Our composite result generalizes the result of Dragomir in \cite{Drag}. Many other interesting inequalities can be derived from…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Eze R. Nwaeze

Our aim in this paper is to show some new inequalities for Mathieu's type series and Riemann zeta function. In particular, some Tur\'an type inequalities, some monotonicity and log-convexity results for these special functions are given.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Khaled Mehrez , Živorad Tomovski

In this paper our aim is to prove some monotonicity and convexity results for the modified Struve function of the second kind by using its integral representation. Moreover, as consequences of these results, we present some functional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Árpád Baricz , Tibor K. Pogány

We study the incomplete Mellin transformation of the fractional part and the related log-sine function when composed by an affine complex map. We evaluate the corresponding integral in two different ways which yields equalities with series…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Alexander Adam

We prove the following theorems: 1) The Laurent expansions in epsilon of the Gauss hypergeometric functions 2F1(I_1+a*epsilon, I_2+b*epsilon; I_3+p/q + c epsilon; z), 2F1(I_1+p/q+a*epsilon, I_2+p/q+b*epsilon; I_3+ p/q+c*epsilon;z),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-26 Mikhail Yu. Kalmykov , Bernd A. Kniehl

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