The Hermite-Hadamard inequality in higher dimensions
Abstract
The Hermite-Hadamard inequality states that the average value of a convex function on an interval is bounded from above by the average value of the function at the endpoints of the interval. We provide a generalization to higher dimensions: let be a convex domain and let be a convex function satisfying , then The constant is presumably far from optimal, however, it cannot be replaced by 1 in general. We prove slightly stronger estimates for the constant in two dimensions where we show that . We also show, for some universal constant , if is simply connected with smooth boundary, is subharmonic, i.e. , and , then We also prove that every domain whose boundary is 'flat' at a certain scale admits a Hermite-Hadamard inequality for all subharmonic functions with a constant depending only on the dimension, the measure and the scale .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.07794,
title = {The Hermite-Hadamard inequality in higher dimensions},
author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07794},
year = {2018}
}