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We present an elementary proof of a conjecture proposed by I. Rasa in 2017 which is an inequality involving Bernstein basis polynomials and convex functions. It was affirmed in positive by A. Komisarski and T. Rajba very recently by the use…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Ulrich Abel , Ioan Rasa

We present an elementary proof of a conjecture by I. Ra\c{s}a which is an inequality involving Bernstein basis polynomials and convex functions. It was affirmed in positive very recently by the use of stochastic convex orderings. Moreover,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Ulrich Abel

We present a new, very short proof of a conjecture by I. Ra\c{s}a, which is an inequality involving basic Bernstein polynomials and convex functions. It was affirmed positively very recently by J. Mrowiec, T. Rajba and S. W\k{a}sowicz…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Andrzej Komisarski , Teresa Rajba

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for Borel measures to satisfy the inequality introduced by Komisarski, Rajba (2018). This inequality is a generalization of the convex order inequality for binomial distributions, which was proved…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Andrzej Komisarski , Teresa Rajba

A recent conjecture by I. Ra\c{s}a asserts that the sum of the squared Bernstein basis polynomials is a convex function in $[0,1]$. This conjecture turns out to be equivalent to a certain upper pointwise estimate of the ratio…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Geno Nikolov

During the Conference on Ulam's Type Stability (Rytro, Poland, 2014), Ioan Rasa recalled his 25-years-old problem concerning some inequality involving the Bernstein polynomials. We offer the complete solution (in positive). As a~tool we use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Jacek Mrowiec , Teresa Rajba , Szymon Wasowicz

The Bernstein polynomial basis sees significant use owing to its unique properties, particularly in the field of optimal control. However, the basis is known to have a slow rate of convergence to the function it approximates. With this in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Maxwell Hammond , Gage MacLin , Laurent Jay , Venanzio Cichella

A fundamental problem in numerical analysis and approximation theory is approximating smooth functions by polynomials. A much harder version under recent consideration is to enforce bounds constraints on the approximating polynomial. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Larry Allen , Robert C. Kirby

In the paper, the authors establish an inequality involving exponential functions and sums, introduce a ratio of many gamma functions, discuss properties, including monotonicity, logarithmic convexity, (logarithmically) complete…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Feng Qi , Wen-Hui Li , Shu-Bin Yu , Xin-Yu Du , Bai-Ni Guo

In this article, we obtain two interesting general inequalities concerning Riemman sums of convex functions, which in particular, sharpen Alzer's inequality and give a suitable converse for it.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-10-22 Jamal Rooin

We prove concentration inequalities for functions of independent random variables {under} sub-gaussian and sub-exponential conditions. The utility of the inequalities is demonstrated by an extension of the now classical method of Rademacher…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil

We study a weighted version of Carleman's inequality via Carleman's original approach. As an application of our result, we prove a conjecture of Bennett.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-06-19 Peng Gao

A generalization of the Bernstein matrix concentration inequality to random tensors of general order is proposed. This generalization is based on the use of Einstein products between tensors, from which a strong link can be established…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Z. Luo , L. Qi , Ph. L. Toint

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

We prove a weak converse estimate for the simultaneous approximation by several forms of the Bernstein polynomials with integer coefficients. It is stated in terms of moduli of smoothness. In particular, it yields a big $O$-characterization…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Borislav R. Draganov

This is a survey paper concerning some theorems on stochastic convex ordering and their applications to functional inequalities for convex functions. We present the recent results on those subjects

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Teresa Rajba

Bernstein polynomial approximation to a continuous function has a slower rate of convergence as compared to other approximation methods. "The fact seems to have precluded any numerical application of Bernstein polynomials from having been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Venanzio Cichella , Isaac Kaminer , Claire Walton , Naira Hovakimyan , Antonio Pascoal

We prove Bernstein-type matrix concentration inequalities for linear combinations with matrix coefficients of binary random variables satisfying certain $\ell_\infty$-independence assumptions, complementing recent results by Kaufman, Kyng…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Radosław Adamczak , Ioannis Kavvadias

We give a distribution-dependent concentration inequality for functions of independent variables. The result extends Bernstein's inequality from sums to more general functions, whose variation in any argument does not depend too much on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Andreas Maurer

It is be shown that the sequence of Bernstein polynomials for a function of several variables converges to this function uniformly along with every partial derivative of any order, provided that the latter derivative is well defined and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Alexander Veretennikov , Evguenia Veretennikova
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