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Young's integral inequality is reformulated with upper and lower bounds for the remainder. The new inequalities improve Young's integral inequality on all time scales, such that the case where equality holds becomes particularly transparent…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-02-15 Douglas R. Anderson , Steven Noren , Brent Perreault

The paper reexamines an argument by Talagrand that leads to a remarkable exponential tail bound for the concentration of probability near a set. The main novelty is the replacement of a mysterious Calculus inequality by an application of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Pollard

In this paper we show that the weighted Bernstein-Walsh inequality in logarithmic potential theory is sharp up to some new universal constant, provided that the external field is given by a logarithmic potential. Our main tool for such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Bernhard Beckermann , Thomas Helart

We give a very simple proof of a strengthened version of Chernoff's Inequality. We derive the same conclusion from much weaker assumptions.

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-01 Nathan Linial , Zur Luria

In this note, we consider Jensen's inequality for the nonlinear expectation associated with backward SDEs driven by $G$-Brownian motion ($G$-BSDEs for short). At first, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for $G$-BSDEs under which…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Ze-Chun Hu , Zhen-Ling Wang

Some of the important inequalities associated with quantum entropy are immediate algebraic consequences of the Hansen-Pedersen-Jensen inequality. A general argument is given using matrix perspectives of operator convex functions. A matrix…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edward G. Effros

This paper proposes a statistical mechanics approach to the analysis of income distribution and inequality. A new distribution function, having its roots in the framework of k-generalized statistics, is derived that is particularly suitable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-02-23 F. Clementi , M. Gallegati , G. Kaniadakis

Ratios of quantiles are often computed for income distributions as rough measures of inequality, and inference for such ratios have recently become available. The special case when the quantiles are symmetrically chosen; that is, when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-13 Luke A. Prendergast , Robert G. Staudte

Classically, Jensen's Inequality asserts that if $X$ is a compact convex set, and $f:K\to \mathbb{R}$ is a convex function, then for any probability measure $\mu$ on $K$, that $f(\text{bar}(\mu))\le \int f\;d\mu$, where $\text{bar}(\mu)$ is…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Adam Humeniuk

We strengthen H\"older's inequality. The new family of sharp inequalities we obtain might be thought of as an analog of Pythagorean theorem for the $L^p$ spaces. Our reasonings rely upon Bellman functions of four variables.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Haakan Hedenmalm , Dmitriy M. Stolyarov , Vasily I. Vasyunin , Pavel B. Zatitskiy

We generalize the Jensen-Shannon divergence by considering a variational definition with respect to a generic mean extending thereby the notion of Sibson's information radius. The variational definition applies to any arbitrary distance and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Frank Nielsen

In this paper we propose a new method for sharpening and refinements of some trigonometric inequalities. We apply these ideas to some inequalities of Wilker-Cusa-Huygens's type.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Branko Malesevic , Tatjana Lutovac , Marija Rasajski , Cristinel Mortici

The Jensen-Shannon divergence is a renown bounded symmetrization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence which does not require probability densities to have matching supports. In this paper, we introduce a vector-skew generalization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Frank Nielsen

We present a refinement, by selfimprovement, of the arithmetic geometric inequality.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-10-30 J. M. Aldaz

The estimate in Bullen's inequality will be extended for continuous functions using the second order modulus of smoothness. A different form of this inequality will be given in terms of the least concave majorant. Also, the composite case…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Ana Maria Acu , Heiner Gonska

Newton's method has been an important approach for solving variational inequalities, quasi-Newton method is a good alternative choice to save computational cost. In this paper, we propose a new method for solving monotone variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li , Deren Han

We introduce an augmented form of the van Trees inequality, that yields uniformly tighter lower bounds on the minimax squared Bayes risk of estimators compared with the classical van Trees inequality. Our augmented inequality also…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Elliot H. Young

In this paper, we sharpen and generalize Shafer's inequality for the arc tangent function. From this, some known results are refined.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-07-12 Feng Qi , Bai-Ni Guo

In this note we describe some results concerning upper and lower bounds for the Jensen functional. We use several known and new results to shed light on the concepts of superterzatic functions.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Flavia-Corina Mitroi-Symeonidis

This article introduces a general statistical modeling principle called "Density Sharpening" and applies it to the analysis of discrete count data. The underlying foundation is based on a new theory of nonparametric approximation and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-24 Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay