All Questions
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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
$$ f’’(x) \leq 0\quad \text{and} \...
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Elementary convexity example
I'm trying to check that certain examples of Young functions in the harmonic analysis literature are actually Young functions, and in doing so need to prove the following convexity-like inequality for ...
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Gradient of a convex function on $\mathbb{R}^d$, maximum on hypercubes bounded by values in corners?
Let $f : \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be infinitely often continuously differentiable and convex.
For $d = 1$, we know that for any interval $[a, b]$, it holds for $x, y \in [a, b]$ that
$$
(f'...
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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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$\int_0^1 f(\sin(1/x)) \times g(\cos(1/x)) dx \leq \int_0^1 f(\sin(1/x)) dx \times \int_0^1 g(\cos(1/x))dx? $
I have noticed experimentally that the following question has a positive answer.
Is it true that for all even and convex functions $f$, $g$:
$$\int_0^1 f(\sin(1/x)) \times g(\cos(1/x)) dx \leq \int_0^...
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Strange result about convexity
$f \in C^2([0,1])$ with $f''$ convex and $f(0) = f'(0) = f''(0) = 0$.
Is it true that : $f''(1)+6f(1)\geq 4f'(1)$ ?
Source: AoPS
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Existence of an asymptote for $g(x)=\frac{f(x)f'(x)+f(1)f'(1)}{f'(x)+f'(1)}-f\left(\frac{xf'(x)+f'(1)}{f'(x)+f'(1)}\right)$
Working with Slater's inequality (a companion of Jensen's inequality) I found this statement:
Let $f(x)$ be a continuous, twice differentiable function, convex or concave and non constant on $(0,\...
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A question about asymptotic affinity and strict convexity with unbounded means
Let $F:[0,\infty) \to [0,\infty)$ be a $C^1$ strictly convex function.
Let $\lambda_n \in [0,1],a_n\le c<b_n \in [0,\infty)$ satisfy
$$ \lambda_n a_n +(1-\lambda_n)b_n=c_n \tag{1}$$ and assume that
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Does strict convexity plus asymptotic affinity imply bounded mean?
I am not sure if this is exactly research-level, but I am struggling to find a proof for the following claim:
Let $F:[0,\infty) \to [0,\infty)$ be a $C^2$ strictly convex function.
Let $\lambda_n \in [...
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Log-concavity inequality
Let $x,y,$ and $t$ be fixed real numbers, $1<x<y$, $0<t<1$. Does the following inequality hold for some $c$
$$\frac{\log{(tx+(1-t)y)}}{\log^t{x}\log^{(1-t)}{y}}>\frac{\log{(sw+(1-s)z)}}{...
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Convexity at a point and Jensen inequality
I am looking for a reference for the following claim:
Let $\phi:\mathbb (a,b) \to \mathbb R$ be a continuous function, and let $c \in (a,b)$ be fixed.
Suppose that "$\phi$ is convex at $c$". ...
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Is there a non-convex function with non-decreasing average rate of change?
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Let $f$ be a function from $\R$ to $\R$. It is said that $f$ is midpoint-convex if for any real $x$ and $y$ we have $f(x-y)+f(x+y)\ge2f(x)$ or, equivalently, $f(x+y)-f(x)\...
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Example of a sequence of logarithmically convex functions on $\mathbb{R}$ and for all $n\in\mathbb{N}$ in the spirit of one evoked in an article
To ask this question I was inspired in some words, if I understand well, from the authors of a preprint on arXiv in section 4.1, that I believe that is [1], to ask next question.
We consider the ...
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Inequality involving product-of-minus vs minus-of-product for positive integers
I'm encountering this inequality for dimensionality reduction problem. The simplified form looks as follows:
Consider positive integers $a_1$, $a_2$, $b_1$ and $b_2$ where $a_1>b_1$ and $a_2>...
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An inequality involving a sum of power terms
I am currently working in a problem in Information Theory and I came across a difficult inequality. After many attemps, I simplified the inequality, which now looks at follows.
Consider a positive ...
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Mixtures of log-convex functions are log-convex: a reference
A referee of a submitted paper requested details on the statement that $\int_0^a e^{-tx^2}\,dx$ is log-convex in real $t$, for each $a>0$. While there are a number of ways to prove this statement, ...
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The missing link: an inequality
I've been working on a project and proved a few relevant results, but got stuck on one tricky problem:
Conjecture. If $2\leq n\in\mathbb{N}$ and $0<x<1$ is a real number, then
$$F_n(x)=\...
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mixing convex and concave for convexity
Let $n\in\mathbb{N}$ and $0<x<1$ be a real number. Is the following a convex function of $x$?
$$G_n(x)=\log\left(\frac{(1+x^{4n+1})(1+x^{4n-1})(1+x^{2n})(1-x^{2n+1})}{(1+x^{2n+1})(1-x^{2n+2})}\...
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About generalized Minkowski inequality
For which functions $f:\mathbb{R}^+ \to \mathbb{R}^+$ does the inequality
$f^{-1}\left(\sum\limits_{k=1}^n f(x_k+y_k)\right) \leq f^{-1}\left(\sum\limits_{k=1}^n f(x_k)\right) + f^{-1}\left(\sum\...
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