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q-Integral inequalities associated with some fractional q-integral operators
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2015, Article number: 345 (2015)
Abstract
In recent years fractional q-integral inequalities have been investigated by many authors. Therefore, the fractional q-integral inequalities have become one of the most powerful and far-reaching tools for the development of many branches of pure and applied mathematics. Here, we aim to establish some new fractional q-integral inequality by using fractional q-integral operators. Relevant connections of the results presented here with earlier ones are also pointed out.
1 Introduction and preliminaries
In recent years the study of fractional q-integral inequalities involving functions of independent variables has been an important research subject in mathematical analysis because the inequality technique is also one of the very useful tools in the study of special functions and theory of approximations. During the last two decades or so, several interesting and useful extensions of many of the fractional integral inequalities have been considered by several authors (see, for example, [1–12]; see also the very recent work [13]). The above-mentioned works have largely motivated our present study.
For our purpose, we begin by recalling the well-known celebrated functional considered by Chebyshev [14] and defined by
where \(f(x)\) and \(g(x)\) are two integrable functions on \([a, b]\). If \(f(x)\) and \(g(x)\) are synchronous on \([a, b]\), i.e.,
for any \(x, y \in[a, b]\), then \(T(f,g)\geq0\).
The functional (1.1) has attracted many researchers’ attention due to diverse applications in numerical quadrature, transform theory, probability and statistical problems. Among those applications, the functional (1.1) has also been employed to yield a number of integral inequalities (see, e.g., [15–22]; for a very recent work, see also [23]).
In 1935, Grüss [24] proved the inequality
where \(f(x)\) and \(g(x)\) are two bounded functions, i.e.,
for any \(m, M, n, N \in\mathbb{R}\) and \(x, y \in[a, b]\).
Pólya and Szegö [25] obtained the following inequality defined as
provided f, g satisfy (1.4) and \(m, n>0\).
Similarly, Dragomir and Diamond proved that (see [26], p.28, Eq. 2.1)
where \(f(x)\) and \(g(x)\) are two positive integrable functions so that
for a.e. \(x\in[a, b]\).
Recently, Anber and Dahmani [2], by using the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral, presented some interesting integral inequalities of Pólya and Szegö type. Here, motivated essentially by the above work, we aim at establishing certain (presumably) new Pólya-Szegö type q-inequalities associated with fractional q-integral operators.
For our purpose, we need the following definitions and some properties.
Definition 1
A real-valued function \(f(t)\) (\(t>0\)) is said to be in the space \(C_{\mu}^{n}\) (\(n, \mu\in\mathbb{R}\)) if there exists a real number \(p>\mu\) such that \(f^{(n)}(t)=t^{p} \phi (t)\), where \(\phi(t) \in C(0, \infty)\).
Here, for the case \(n=1\), we use a simpler notation \(C_{\mu}^{1}=C_{\mu}\).
Definition 2
Let \(\Re(\alpha)>0\), β and η be real or complex numbers. Then a q-analogue of Saigo’s fractional integral \(I^{\alpha,\beta,\eta}_{q}\) is given for \(|\frac{\tau}{t}|<1\) by (see [27], p.172, Eq. (2.1))
The integral operator\(I^{\alpha,\beta,\eta}_{q}\) includes both the q-analogues of the Riemann-Liouville and Erdélyi-Kober fractional integral operators given by the following relationships:
and
where \((a;q)_{\alpha}\) is the q-shifted factorial.
The q-shifted factorial \((a;q)_{n}\) is defined by
where \(a, q \in\mathbb{C}\), and it is assumed that \(a \ne q^{-m}\) (\(m \in{\mathbb{N}}_{0}\)).
The q-shifted factorial for negative subscript is defined by
We also write
It follows from (1.11), (1.12) and (1.13) that
which can be extended to \(n=\alpha\in\mathbb{C}\) as follows:
where the principal value of \(q^{\alpha}\) is taken.
For \(f(t) = t^{\mu}\) in (1.8), we get the known formula [28]
Lemma 1
(Choi and Agarwal [28])
Let \(0< q<1\) and \(f:[0, \infty) \to\mathbb{R}\) be a continuous function with \(f(t)\geq0\) for all \(t \in[0, \infty)\). Then we have the following inequalities:
-
(i)
The Saigo fractional q-integral operator of the function \(f(t)\) in (1.8)
$$ I^{\alpha,\beta,\eta}_{q} \bigl\{ f(t) \bigr\} \geq0 $$(1.17)for all \(\alpha>0\) and \(\beta, \eta\in\mathbb{R}\) with \(\alpha+ \beta>0\) and \(\eta<0\);
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(ii)
The q-analogue of Riemann-Liouville fractional integral operator of the function \(f(t)\) of order α in (1.9)
$$ I^{\alpha}_{q} \bigl\{ f(t) \bigr\} \geq0 $$(1.18)for all \(\alpha>0\);
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(iii)
The q-analogue of Erdélyi-Kober fractional integral operator of the function \(f(t)\) in (1.10)
$$ I^{\eta, \alpha}_{q} \bigl\{ f(t) \bigr\} \geq0 $$(1.19)for all \(\alpha>0\) and \(\eta\in\mathbb{R}\).
2 Certain fractional q-integral inequalities
In this section, we establish certain Pólya-Szegö type integral inequalities for the synchronous functions involving the hypergeometric fractional integral operator (1.8), some of which are presumably (new) ones. For our purpose, we begin with providing the following lemma involving a q-analogue of Saigo’s fractional integral operator.
Lemma 2
Let \(0< q<1\), u and v be two continuous and positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) with
Then the following inequality holds true:
for all \(\alpha>0\), and \(\beta, \eta\in\mathbb{R}\) with \(\alpha+ \beta>0\), and \(\eta<0\).
Proof
From (2.1), for \(\tau\in[0,t]\), \(t>0\), we have
which yields
Analogously, we have
from which one has
Multiplying (2.4) and (2.6), we obtain
Now, multiplying both sides of (2.7) by
and taking q-integration of the resulting inequality with respect to τ from 0 to t with the aid of Definition 2, we get
Applying the AM-GM inequality, i.e., \(a+b\geq2\sqrt{ab}\), \(a,b\in\mathbb{R}^{+}\), we have
This implies that after little simplification
This completes the proof of Lemma 2. □
Theorem 1
Let \(0< q<1\), f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) and m, M, n, N be positive real numbers with inequality (2.1) holds. Then the following inequality holds true:
for all \(\alpha>0\), and \(\beta, \eta\in\mathbb{R}\) with \(\alpha+ \beta>0\), and \(\eta<0\).
Proof
Let f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0,\infty)\). Then, for all \(\tau, \rho\in(0, t)\) with \(t> 0\), we have
or, equivalently,
Now, multiplying both sides of (2.13) by
and taking q-integration of the resulting inequality with respect to τ from 0 to t with the aid of Definition 2, we get
Again, multiplying both sides of (2.14) by
and taking q-integration of the resulting inequality with respect to ρ from 0 to t and using (1.8), we get
By using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for double integrals, we have
Applying Definition 2, we get
By applying Lemma 2, we get
After little simplification, we get
or
Similarly, we get
Finally, by adding (2.14), (2.17), (2.20) and (2.21), side by side, we arrive at the desired result (2.11). □
In the sequel, we can present another inequality involving the q-fractional integral operator given in (1.8), asserted by the following lemma.
Lemma 3
Let \(0< q<1\), u and v be two continuous and positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) with (2.1) holds. Then the following inequality holds true:
for all \(\alpha,\gamma>0\), and \(\beta, \eta,\delta,\zeta\in \mathbb{R}\) with \(\alpha+ \beta>0\), \(\gamma+\delta>0\), and \(\eta,\zeta<0\).
Proof
To prove Lemma 2, we start from the condition
we get
Now, multiplying both sides of (2.24) by
and integrating with respect to ρ from 0 to t, we get
Multiplying (2.24) and (2.25), we get the desired result (2.22). This completes the proof of Lemma 2. □
Theorem 2
Let \(0< q<1\), f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) and there exist positive real numbers m, n, M, N with inequality (2.1) holds. Then we have
for all \(\alpha,\gamma>0\), and \(\beta, \eta,\delta,\zeta\in \mathbb{R}\) with \(\alpha+ \beta>0\), \(\gamma+\delta>0\), and \(\eta,\zeta<0\).
Proof
Multiplying both sides of (2.14) by
and integrating with respect to ρ from 0 to t, we get
By using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for double integrals, we have
Applying Definition 2, we get
Applying Definition 2, we get
and
Similarly, for the function \(g(t)\), we get
and
Finally, in view of (2.27) to (2.33), we arrive at the desired result (2.26). This completes the proof of Theorem 2. □
Remark 1
It may be noted that the inequality in (2.26) when \(\zeta=\eta\) reduces immediately to that in (2.11).
3 Special cases and concluding remarks
By virtue of the unified nature of Saigo’s fractional q-integral operator (1.8), a large number of new and known integral inequalities involving q-analogues of the Riemann-Liouville and Erdélyi-Kober fractional integral operators are seen to follow as special cases of our main result. Indeed, by suitably specializing the values of parameters α, β, η (and γ, δ, ζ in addition of Theorem 2), inequalities (2.11) and (2.26) in Theorems 1 and 2, respectively, would yield further Grüss type integral inequalities involving the above-mentioned integral operators.
If we put \(\beta= 0\) (and \(\delta=0\) in addition in Theorem 2), using (1.10), inequalities (2.11) and (2.26) gives the following results involving q-analogues of the Erdélyi-Kober fractional integral operators, which are believed to be new.
Corollary 1
Let \(0< q<1\), f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) and m, M, n, N be positive real numbers with inequality (2.1) holds. Then the following inequality holds true:
for all \(\alpha>0\), and \(\eta\in\mathbb{R}\) with \(\eta<0\).
Corollary 2
Let \(0< q<1\), f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) and there exist positive real numbers m, n, M, N with inequality (2.1) holds. Then we have
for all \(\alpha,\gamma>0\), and \(\eta,\zeta\in\mathbb{R}\) with \(\eta,\zeta<0\).
Similarly, if we set \(\eta=0\) and replace β by −α in Theorem 1 (and \(\zeta=0\) and replace δ by −γ in addition in Theorem 2), using (1.9), inequalities (2.11) and (2.26) gives the following results involving q-analogues of the Riemann-Liouville and Erdélyi-Kober fractional integral operators, which are also believed to be new.
Corollary 3
Let \(0< q<1\), f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) and m, M, n, N be positive real numbers with inequality (2.1) holds. Then the following inequality holds true:
for all \(\alpha>0\).
Corollary 4
Let \(0< q<1\), f and g be two positive integrable functions on \([0, \infty)\) and there exist positive real numbers m, n, M, N with inequality (2.1) holds. Then we have
for all \(\alpha,\gamma>0\).
We conclude this paper by emphasizing, again, that our main result here, being of a very general nature, can be specialized to yield numerous interesting fractional integral inequalities including q-analogues of some known results (see, for example [13]).
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Agarwal, P., Dragomir, S.S., Park, J. et al. q-Integral inequalities associated with some fractional q-integral operators. J Inequal Appl 2015, 345 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-015-0860-8
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