Paper Title:

Improvement of Jensen's Inequality for Superquadratic Functions

Author(s):

S. Abramovich, B. Ivanković, and J. Pečarić

Department of Mathematics,
University of Haifa,
Haifa 31905,
Israel.
abramos@math.haifa.ac.il

Faculty of Transport and Trafic Engineering,
University of Zagreb,
Vukelićeva 4, 10000,
Croatia
bozidar.ivankovic@zg.t-com.hr

Faculty of Textile,
University of Zagreb,
Prilaz Baruna Filipovića 30, 10000 Zagreb,
Croatia
pecaric@element.hr

Abstract:

Since 1907, the famous Jensen's inequality has been refined in different manners. In our paper, we refine it applying superquadratic functions and separations of domains for convex functions. There are convex functions which are not superquadratic and superquadratic functions which are not convex. For superquadratic functions which are not convex we get inequalities analogue to inequalities satisfied by convex functions. For superquadratic functions which are convex (including many useful functions) we get refinements of Jensen's inequality and its extensions.

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