1. Introduction and Preliminaries
A function
is said to be convex, if
Iscan [
1] introduced the notion of harmonically convex functions as follows:
A function
is said to be harmonically convex, if
It is worth mentioning here that the harmonic property has played a significant role in different fields of pure and applied sciences. In [
2], the authors have discussed the important role of the harmonic mean in Asian stock options. Interestingly, harmonic means are applied in electric circuit theory. More specifically, the total resistance of a set of parallel resistors is just half of the harmonic mean of the total resistors. For example, if
and
are the resistances of two parallel resistors, then the total resistance is computed by the formula:
which is the half of the harmonic mean.
Noor [
3] showed that the harmonic mean also plays a crucial role in the development of parallel algorithms for solving nonlinear problems. Several authors have used harmonic means and harmonic convex functions to propose some iterative methods for solving linear and nonlinear system of equations.
Convexity played a vital role in the development of the theory of inequalities. Several inequalities constitute direct consequences of applications of convexity. In this regard, Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality is one of the most extensively as well as intensively studied result. It provides us with an estimate of the (integral) mean value of a continuous convex function. It reads as:
Let
be a convex function, then
Iscan [
4] extended the classical version of Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality using the harmonic convexity property of the function.
Let
be a harmonically convex function, then
An interesting problem related to Hermite–Hadamard’s inequality is its precision. Note that the left Hermite–Hadamard inequality can be estimated by the following inequality:
where
M is the Lipschitz constant which is equal to
. This above inequality is known in the literature as Ostrowski’s inequality.
Recently, several research articles have been written on different generalizations of Ostrowski’s inequality using different techniques. For example, Alomari et al. [
5] obtained Ostrowski type inequalities using the class of
s-convex functions. Ardic et al. [
6] obtained Ostrowski type inequalities using the class of
-convex and
-convex functions. Budak and Sarikaya [
7] obtained generalized Ostrowski type inequalities for functions whose first derivatives’ absolute values are convex. Budak and Sarikaya [
8] also obtained some new weighted Ostrowski type inequalities for functions of two variables with bounded variation. Iscan [
4] obtained some Ostrowski type inequalities using the class of harmonically
s-convex functions. Khurshid et al. [
9] obtained a conformable fractional version of Ostrowski type inequalities using preinvex functions. Koroglu [
10] obtained some more generalized Ostrowski type inequalities using harmonically convex functions. Mohsin et al. [
11] obtained new generalizations of Ostrowski type inequalities using harmonically
h-convex functions. Set [
12] obtained some generalized fractional refinements of Ostrowski type inequalities using the class of
s-convex functions. Recently, Sun [
13] obtained some more local fractional versions of Ostrowski type inequalities and discussed its applications. For more details on Ostrowski type inequalities and its applications, cf. [
14].
The aim of this paper is to obtain some new generalizations of Ostrowski’s inequality essentially utilising the harmonic convexity property of the functions. We first derive a new auxiliary result which will play a significant role in the development of these results. We also discuss some special cases that can be deduced from the main results of the paper. In the last section, we present some applications of the obtained results. We hope that the ideas and techniques presented within this paper will inspire interested readers.
2. Main Results
In this section, we discuss our main results.
Let be the space of Lebesgue integrable functions on the interval . Our first result is an auxiliary lemma. This result will play a significant role in the development of the next results.
Lemma 1. Let be a differentiable mapping on with . If belongs to , then, for all and for all , the following equality holds true:for where Proof. For the sake of brevity, we write
. Let
Now, an integration by parts yields
Summing
and
, we have
This completes the proof. □
We now discuss some special cases of Lemma 1. To the best of our knowledge, these special cases are also new in the literature.
I. If we set
in Lemma 1, then the following equality holds:
where
In addition, if we set
in (
3), then the following equality holds:
where
Before proceeding to our next result, let us recall the integral form of the hypergeometric function:
for
.
We now derive our first refinement of Ostrowski type inequality using the class of harmonically convex functions.
Theorem 1. Let the expression be as defined in (1) of Lemma 1. Suppose is a differentiable mapping on , where with If is harmonically convex, then, for , and , the following inequality holds true:where Proof. For the sake of brevity, we write
and
. Using Lemma 1, we have
Using the harmonic convexity of
, we get
This completes the proof. □
We now derive a second refinement of Ostrowski type inequalities involving harmonically convex functions. We derive this result using the power mean inequality.
Theorem 2. Let be a differentiable mapping on , where with If, for , is harmonically convex, for , and , the following inequality holds true:where Proof. For the sake of brevity, we write
and
. We suppose that
. Taking modulus in Lemma 1 and using the power mean inequality, we have
Using the harmonic convexity of
, we get
This completes the proof. □
Remark 1. If , then Theorem 2 reduces to Theorem 1.
Corollary 1. Under the assumptions of Theorem 2, if we choose in (4), then we havewhere , are given in Theorem 2 and
Corollary 2. Under the assumptions of Theorem 2, if we choose in (4), thenwhere Corollary 3. Under the assumptions of Theorem 2, if we choose and in Corollary 2, thenwhere In order to establish our next refinement of Ostrowski’s inequality, we use Hölder’s inequality.
Theorem 3. Let be a differentiable mapping on , where with Let and define p by the equality . If the function is harmonically convex, then, for , and , the following inequality is valid:where Proof. For brevity, we denote
and
. Taking modulus in Lemma 1 and using Hölder’s inequality, we have
Using the harmonic convexity of
, we get
This completes the proof. □
Corollary 4. Under the assumptions of Theorem 3, if we choose in 5, thenwhereand where and are given in Theorem 3. Corollary 5. Under the assumptions of Theorem 3, if we choose in (5), thenwhere , are given in Theorem 3 and Corollary 6. Under the assumptions of Theorem 3, if we choose and in Corollary 5, thenwhere Theorem 4. Let the notions and hypothesis be as in Theorem 3. Then, the following inequality is true for , and :where Proof. For simplicity, we assume that
and
. Taking modulus in Lemma 1 and using Hölder’s inequality, we have
Using the harmonic convexity of
, we get
This completes the proof. □
Corollary 7. Under the assumptions of Theorem 4, if we choose in (6), thenwhere , are given in Theorem 4 and Corollary 8. Under the assumptions of Theorem 4, if we choose in (6), thenwherewhere and are given in Theorem 4. Corollary 9. Under the assumptions of Theorem 4, if we choose and in Corollary 8, thenwhere