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The aim of this paper is to present some new Fejer-type results for convex functions. Improvements of Young's inequality (the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality) and other applications to special means are pointed as well.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-03-22 N. Minculete , F. -C. Mitroi

Since its original formulation, Jensen's inequality has played a fundamental role across mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, with its probabilistic version highlighting the nonnegativity of the so-called Jensen's gap, i.e., the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Marcin Mazur , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Piotr Kościelniak , Łukasz Struski

Jensen's inequality is ubiquitous in measure and probability theory, statistics, machine learning, information theory and many other areas of mathematics and data science. It states that, for any convex function $f\colon K \to \mathbb{R}$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Ilja Klebanov

This article presents a theoretical study of uncertainty functionals on general measurable spaces. These functionals are fundamental in experimental design and global sensitivity analysis, where they are used to quantify variability and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Julien Bect , Xujia Zhu

Some sharp inequalities of Gruss type for sequences of vectors in real or complex inner product spaces are obtained. Applications for Jensen's inequality for convex functions defined on such spaces are also provided.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sever Silvestru Dragomir

Comparative convexity is a generalization of convexity relying on abstract notions of means. We define the Jensen divergence and the Jensen diversity from the viewpoint of comparative convexity, and show how to obtain the generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

We have recently established some integral inequalities for convex functions via the Hermite-Hadamard's inequalities. In continuation here, we also establish some interesting new integral inequalities for convex functions via the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Khaled Mehrez , Praveen Agarwal

The original Choi-Davis-Jensen's inequality, with its wide-ranging applications in diverse scientific and engineering fields, has motivated researchers to explore generalizations. In this study, we extend Davis-Choi-Jensen's inequality by…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Shih Yu Chang , Yimin Wei

This study focuses on convex functions and their generalized. Thus, we start this study by giving the definition of convex functions and some of their properties and discussing a simple geometric property. Then we generalize E-convex…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-27 Adem Kilicman , Wedad Saleh

This paper extends the asymmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence and symmetric Jensen-Shannon divergence from two probability measures to the case of two sets of probability measures. We establish some fundamental properties of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Xinpeng Li , Miao Yu

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

Convexity is a key concept in information theory, namely via the many implications of Jensen's inequality, such as the non-negativity of the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD). Jensen's inequality also underlies the concept of Jensen-Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-11 Andre Martins , Pedro Aguiar , Mario Figueiredo

In this paper we first introduce the Heron and Heinz means of two convex functionals. Afterwards, some inequalities involving these functional means are investigated. The operator versions of our theoretical functional results are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Mustapha Raïssouli , Shigeru Furuichi

Mass transportation problems appear in various areas of mathematics, their solutions involving cost convex potentials. Fenchel duality also represents an important concept for a wide variety of optimization problems, both from the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Flavia Corina Mitroi , Daniel Alexandru Ion

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

In this paper we provide two-sided attainable bounds of Jensen type for the generalized Sugeno integral of {\it any} measurable function. The results extend the previous results of Rom\'an-Flores et al. for increasing functions and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Michał Boczek , Marek Kałuszka

We establish in this paper some inequalities for analytic and convex functions on an open interval and positive normalized functionals defined on a Hermitian unital Banach *-algebra. Reverses and refinements of Jensen's and Slater's type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Silvestru Sever Dragomir

In this paper, a general form of integral inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard's type through differentiability for s-Convex function in second sense and whose all derivatives are absolutely continuous are established. The generalized integral…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Muhammad Muddassar , Muhammad Iqbal Bhatti

The aim of this article is to establish new two-functions minimax inequalities extending classical results such as Simons' minimax theorem. Our results will be proved in a non-compact setting. We also prove, under general conditions, that…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Mohammed Bachir

We extend Dragomir's refinement of Jensen's inequality from the dicrete to the general case, identifying the equality conditions.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 J. M. Aldaz