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Prove or disprove that $|(1/\zeta)^{(n)}(x)| \leq \frac{n!}{(x-\frac{1}{2})}$ for all real $x>1$

$|(1/\zeta)^{(n)}(x)| \leq \frac{n!}{(x-\frac{1}{2})}$ for all real $x>1$. I had this conjecture for a long time. I tried various methods and techniques but they all failed. It might also be wrong ...
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Upper bound on higher order derivatives of $\frac{1}{v(t)}$

Suppose that $ v(t) >l>0$ and $$ \vert v^{(k)}(t) \vert \leq c \frac{k!}{r^k}. $$ Can we give an upper bound for $$ (\frac{1}{v(t)})^{(k)} $$ ? Attempt: We first compute the first fourth order ...
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A proof for an $L^p$-$L^p$ inequality

This is a transfer of the question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4996853/an-lp-lp-inequality Let $a\in (0,1)$ and $1<p<\infty$ and use $L^{p}$ to denote the space $L^{p}([0,\infty))$ ...
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A certain inequality involving square roots of polynomials

I want to prove the inequality $$\begin{aligned} &\sqrt{(x - 1)^2 + y^2}\Big[y^2(9x - 6) - 9x^2 + 9x^3\Big]+ y^2(16x^2 - 16x + 7)\\ &- \sqrt{x^2 + y^2}\Big[9x + y^2(9x - 3) + \sqrt{(x - 1)^2 + ...
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Can one show $\left|\frac{2(\zeta'(x))^2-\zeta''(x)\zeta(x)}{\zeta^3(x)}\right|\leq \frac{2}{(x-\frac{1}{2})^2}$ for $x\in\mathbb{R}\cap [1,\infty)$?

I have found that $\left|\frac{2(\zeta'(x))^2-\zeta''(x)\zeta(x)}{\zeta^3(x)}\right|\leq \frac{2}{(x-\frac{1}{2})^2}$ for all real $x$ such that $x>1$ seems to be true. I have plotted the ...
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Can one show that $|\zeta'(x) / \zeta^2(x)| \leq 1/(x-.5)$ for $x\in\mathbb{R}\cap [1,\infty)$?

I have found that $\left|\frac{\zeta'(x)}{\zeta^2(x)}\right|\leq \frac{1}{x-\frac{1}{2}}$ for all real $x$ such that $x>1$ seems to be true. I have plotted the inequality and got this inequality ...
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Proving an exponential sum inequality for symmetric Hamming distance sequences in binary vectors

Background: Let $X = \{0,1\}^k$ represent the set of all binary vectors of length $k$. For two binary vectors $x, y \in X$, the Hamming distance $d_H(x, y)$ is defined as the number of positions where ...
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Extremizing sequence consists of two elements

Let $\mathcal A_{s}$ be the set of sequences $X=(x_m)_{m \in I}$ where $I=\{1,2,...,n\}$ with $n \ge 2$ and possibly $n =\infty$ is an index set with $x_1=0$, $x_2=s>0$ and $x_m>x_{m-1}$ for $m,...
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More on the Gram matrix of $6$ unit vectors in $\Bbb R^3$

Let $G=(g_{ij}\colon i,j=1,\dots,6)$ be the $6\times6$ Gram matrix of $6$ unit vectors in $\Bbb R^3$. Let $$u:=\sum_{1\le i<j\le 6}g_{ij}^2,\quad v:=\sum_{1\le i<j<k\le 6}g_{ij}g_{ik}g_{jk}.$$...
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Does this polynomial have a real zero less than or equal to $1/2$?

Is the smallest root $x$ of $$ 10x^{3}-30x^{2}+\left(30-2\sum_{1\le i<j\le6}\cos^{2}\alpha_{ij}\right)x\\ +2\sum_{1\le i<j\le6}\cos^{2}\alpha_{ij}-\sum_{1\le i<j<k\le6}\cos\alpha_{ij}\cos\...
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Smallest root of a degree 3 polynomial

Is it true that the smallest root $t$ of the polynomial $$ 20 t^3 - 30 t^2 + (12 - 4 \cos^2 \alpha - 4 \cos^2 \beta - 4 \cos^2 \gamma) t + \cos^2 \alpha + \cos^2 \beta + \cos^2 \gamma - 2 \cos \alpha \...
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Boundedness of sum of sin(sin(n))

Playing with desmos I have accidentally noticed that the sequence of partial sums $$\left\{ \sum_{n=1}^{N}\sin(\sin(n)) : N\geq 1 \right\}$$ is bounded. However, I did not succeed in proving this ...
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An inequality about binomial distribution

Statement Assume that $\sigma,R\in (1,+\infty)$, $N\in\mathbb{N}^*$, $p\in (0,1)$, $n_1\in\{0,1,2,\cdots,N-1\}$. Prove or disprove that $$B^\frac{1}{\sigma}(n_1)-B^\frac{1}{\sigma}(n_1+1)<1 .$$ ...
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The reciprocal of the normalized tail of the Maclaurin power series expansion of the hyperbolic sinc function is a convex function

The classical Bernoulli numbers $B_j$ are generated by \begin{equation}\label{Bernoulli-No-Generating} \frac{x}{\operatorname{e}^x-1}=\sum_{j=0}^\infty B_j\frac{x^j}{j!}=1-\frac{x}2+\sum_{j=1}^\infty ...
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A trig inequality

Let $m$ be an odd and $n$ an even positive integers. I need to estimate the maximum value of $\left|\sin(m\theta)\sin(n\theta)\right|$: $$ c_{m,n}:=\max_{\theta\in[0,\pi]} \left| \sin(m\theta) \sin(n\...
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On a differential inequality with an additional constraint

I am stuck on this problem from a research question, which seems to require solving a differential equation, but I am not sure how to deal with integrals like $\int_0^t$ or $\int_t^1$. I will be ...
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Reference request for equivalent Lipschitz smoothness conditions

For an open set $Z\subseteq\mathbb{R}^n$, let $f: Z\mapsto \mathbb{R}$ be a continuously differentiable function on $Z$, and let $L>0$ be fixed. Also, suppose that (a) $f$ is nonconvex and (b) $f$ ...
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Upper bound of a product of sines

Consider the function $$ f_n(t)= \prod_{1 \leq k \leq n-1,\\ \gcd(k,n)=1} \sin\Big(t-\frac{k \pi}{n}\Big),\quad t \in [0,\pi].$$ I wonder whether it is possible to compute some nontrivial upper ...
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Taylor coefficients of the integral of the ordered exponential

Let $A$ be a continuous $2\times 2$ matrix-valued function on $[0,1]$. Define $X_A$ as the solution of $$ X_A'(t) = A(t) X_A(t), \qquad X(0) = I. $$ In other words $X_A$ is the ordered exponential of $...
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Gauss transformation in fractional Sobolev space

Let $g_{\mu}(x) = \mu^{d/2}\exp(-\pi\mu|x|^2)$ for every $\mu > 0$. Prove that $$ \int_{\mathbb R^{d}}\left|(-\Delta)^{\frac{s}{2}} u\right|^{2} \geq \int_{\mathbb R^{d}}\left|(-\Delta)^{\frac{s}{2}...
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Bound on $L^1$ norm of solution of two-point boundary value problem

This has to be known, but I have not been able to find it in the literature (probably due to not being too familiar with two-point boundary value problems). I have a function $u:[0,1]\to\mathbb{R}$ ...
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Proving $\sum_{i=1}^{n}\sum_{j=1}^{n}\left\{\frac{x_{i}}{x_{j}}\right\}\le \frac{9}{14}n^2$?

For any postive integer $n$ and for any postive real numbers $x_{1},x_{2},\cdots,x_{n}$, show that $$\sum_{i=1}^{n}\sum_{j=1}^{n}\left\{\dfrac{x_{i}}{x_{j}}\right\}\le \dfrac{9}{14}n^2$$ Let \begin{...
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What is the minimum and the maximum perimeter of a triangle with area $x$ that can be inscribed in a circle?

This question was posted in MSE but is still open hence posting in MO. The area of the largest triangle that can be inscribed in a circle of raidus $1$ is $\displaystyle \frac{3 \sqrt{3}}{4}$ for a ...
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A Poincaré-like inequality

Is it true that for some real $K>0$ and all real $u\in C_0^\infty((0,1))$ we have $$\int_0^1 (u'(x)^2+u(x)^2)\,dx\,\int_0^1 u(x)^2\,dx \le K\Big(\int_0^1 x\,u'(x)^2\,dx\Big)^2\text{ ?}$$
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A possible upper bound for a function that satisfies a singular integral inequality

I am currently working on an analysis problem in fractional calculus and after some work I have encountered the following inequality: $$ |v(s)|~\leq \epsilon+\beta \int_{0}^{1}|s-x|^{\alpha-1}\left( |...
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On the validity of a certain Grönwall-type inequality

Assume that $u~ \colon \mathbb{R}_+ \to [-M,M]$ is a bounded continuously differentiable function such that $u(0) = 0$ and $$u(t) \leq \int_0^t \lambda(s)~u(s)~\mathrm{d}s + C \label{1}\tag{1}$$ where ...
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Cauchy-Schwarz-like inequality with a power $p$ term

We set : $\phi_1, \phi_2 : \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}^M$ with compact support $\theta \in \mathbb{R}^M$ non-zero, $\theta_{p-1} = (\operatorname{sign}(\theta_i)|\theta_i|^{p-1})_{1 \leq i \leq M} \in \...
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Gronwall lemma for a $2$-dimensional system of linear differential inequalities

Let $$z(t)=\begin{pmatrix}x(t) \\ y(t)\end{pmatrix}~,~ A=\begin{pmatrix}0 & -\beta \\ \alpha & -(\alpha + \beta)\end{pmatrix}$$ satisfies the following system of linear differential ...
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On the monotonicity of the ratio of two logarithmic expressions

According to this comment and this comment, a positive answer to this recent question (about Bernoulli numbers) would be sufficient to prove the following: $r:=f/g$ is increasing on $(0,\pi/2)$ from $...
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Prove inequality [closed]

I have to prove the following inequality (See Appendix A of Classical Fourier Analysis of Grafakos). $$ \left(\frac{(1+s/y)^y}{e^s}\right)^{2y} \leq (1+s)^2 / \exp(s), \quad s\geq 0 $$ and $$ \left(\...
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Polynomial / quadratic autonomous system of ODEs – proving monotonicity / convexity

Problem: Consider the autonomous ODE system \begin{align*} \dot{x} &= (1-x) (z-xy)\\ \dot{y} &= \tfrac 1 2 y^2 - (a+xy)(1-y) \\ \dot{z} &= \tfrac 1 2 z^2 - \tfrac 1 2 y^2 + (a+xy)z \end{...
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What is the easiest way to prove the correctness of this inequality

I have the following inequality for some $0<x<0.1$: $$x^{1/10}-(1-(1-x)^{x^{-0.5}}) \geq 0$$ Is there an easy way to prove the correctness of such inequality? Thanks!
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An algebraic inequality in three real variables

Is it true that $$(v-u)^2+(w-u)^2+(w-v)^2 \\ +\left(\sqrt{\frac{1+u^2}{1+v^2}} +\sqrt{\frac{1+v^2}{1+u^2}}\right) (w-u)(w-v) \\ -\left(\sqrt{\frac{1+u^2}{1+w^2}}+\sqrt{\frac{1+w^2}{1+u^2}}\right) (w-...
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On existence of a concave function

Let $a$ be a strictly positive $C^\infty$ smooth function on the unit interval. Does there exist a strictly positive $C^\infty$ smooth function $f$ on $I$ such that $$ f’’(x) \leq 0\quad \text{and} \...
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Elementary convexity example

I'm trying to check that certain examples of Young functions in the harmonic analysis literature are actually Young functions, and in doing so need to prove the following convexity-like inequality for ...
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When does the sine transform result in a positive function?

For each $x>0$ is, $$\int_0^\infty \tanh(t)e^{-\cosh(t)} \sin(x t) dt > 0\ \ \ ?$$ In general, it is known that if the kernel is decreasing, then the sine transform is positive. Note that this ...
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An inequality about the second-order difference

Fix a continuously differentiable but nowhere twice differentiable function $f$ on $\mathbb{R}$ supported on $[0,1]$. Is it true that for all $x\in[0,1]$ and all $\delta$ sufficiently small \begin{...
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Inequalities involving binary representation of integers

Let $N\geq 1$ be a positive integer and assume that $N=2^{n_1}+2^{n_2}+\cdots+2^{n_{p}}$, $n_{1}>n_{2}>\cdots>n_{p}\geq 0$, is the binary representation of $N$. I believe that the following ...
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How do I integrate this inequality that appears in a paper of Rabinowitz?

Sorry if this is too easy for MO, but I found it in a research paper, so I thought that it was worth posting here. I was reading a paper by Rabinowitz(this one to be more precise) and I came across ...
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Polya-Szego inequality w.r.t. partial direction

Let $f\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and let $f^*$ be its symmetric deceasing rearragement. Then the Polya-Szego inequality tells us that $f^*$ is also in $H^1(\mathbb{R}^d)$ and $$\|\nabla f^*\|_2\leq \|\...
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Bounding integral expression with Sobolev norm of integrand

Consider the following integral expression: $$\mathcal I :=\iint_{\epsilon \leq|x-y| \leq 1/2} f(x) f(y) \frac{\langle g(x)-g(y), x-y\rangle}{|x-y|^{n+2}} d x d y $$ for $\epsilon>0$, $f \in L^\...
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Bounding integral expression with BV norm of integrand

Consider the following integral expression: $$\mathcal I :=\iint_{\epsilon \leq|x-y| \leq 1/2} f(x) f(y) \frac{\langle g(x)-g(y), x-y\rangle}{|x-y|^{n+2}} d x d y $$ for $\epsilon>0$, $f \in L^\...
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$L^p$ inequality for "positively correlated" random variables

Suppose that we have $m$ complex-valued random variables $\xi_1,\ldots,\xi_m$ and assume the following "positive correlation" property: for all non-negative integers $\alpha_1,\ldots,\...
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Coefficients of certain Taylor series

For $t\in(-1,1)$, let $$f(t):=\left(\frac{1+t}{1-t}\right)^{(1-t)/2}+\left(\frac{1-t}{1+t}\right)^{(1+t)/2}$$ and $$g(t):=\frac1{f(t)}.$$ Note that the functions $f$ and $g$ are even. Question 1: Is ...
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A convexity question

Let $Q=[0,1]\times[0,1]$ and let $a$ be a positive smooth function on $Q$. Does there exist a smooth positive function $u$ On $Q$ such that there holds $$ \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_1^2}u <0 $$ ...
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Lower bound for integrals like $\int_1^{t+1}e^{-\sqrt{s}}s^{-1}ds$

Let $$I(t) = \int_{1}^{t+1}\exp\left\{-c\frac{s^{1-\beta}}{1-\beta}\right\}s^{-2\beta}ds,$$ where $c$ is some positive constant and $\beta\in(0, 1)$. Since the integral $I(t)$ given above could not be ...
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A simple 1-dimensional inequality, maybe Poincaré inequality or Hölder inequality?

I'm reading a paper on the classical Gagliardo-Nirenberg interpolation inequality arXiv link and there is a inequality used $$ |v-\overline{v}|\le \left\Vert v' \right\Vert_{r,I} \ell^{1-\frac{1}{r}}, ...
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Is $\int_0^\infty{dx\over x^{x^{x^x}}}<\int_0^\infty{dx\over x^{x^{x^{x^{x^x}}}}}<\int_0^\infty{dx\over x^{x^{x^{x^{x^{x^{x^x}}}}}}}<\cdots$ true?

On MSE I asked whether each of $\int_0^\infty\frac{dx}{x^x},\int_0^\infty\frac{dx}{x^{x^{x^x}}},\int_0^\infty\frac{dx}{x^{x^{x^{x^{x^x}}}}},\cdots$ was less than $2$ and received answers on bounding ...
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Extremizers of the Sobolev inequality

Background: I am reading the paper: Best constant in Sobolev inequality by Talenti (see here) and I am trying to understand the following step. On p. 365, the author is arguing that the solutions to ...
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An Elementary Inequality [closed]

A friend of mine found in the internet the following exercise: Let $a, b, c \geq 0$ with $a + b + c = 1$. Show that $$ \sqrt{a + b^2} + \sqrt{b + c^2} + \sqrt{c + a^2} \geq 2, $$ where equality is ...
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