1. Introduction
The field of fractional calculus is the generalization of classical differential and integral calculus. There are vast applications of fractional calculus in pure and applied mathematics. There is a significant role of inequalities in different areas of mathematics, and it is active and exciting for researchers. Recently, it has been found that convexity plays a significant part in pure mathematics. A function
is named as convex, if the inequality
holds for all
and
On using classical convexity, a lot of research has been performed on integral inequalities. However, one of the most essential and well-known inequalities is the Hermite-Hadamard inequality.
In [
1], the remarkable inequality is stated as: Let
be a convex function on the interval
of real numbers and
with
. Then,
Suppose
is a concave function. In that case, the above inequalities will be reversed.
In the area of mathematical inequalities, many mathematicians have paid attention to the inequalities of Hermit-Hadamard due to their importance and applications. Many researchers have generalized the Hermit-Hadamard inequality using the classical convex function.
In [
2], Fejér gave a weighted generalization of the inequality (
1) for a convex function
as follows:
where
is non-negative, integrable, and symmetric about
First, we mention some preliminary concepts and results that will be helpful in the sequel, for more details see [
3,
4,
5].
Let and where is a nonempty closed set in , be continuous functions, and let be a continuous function.
In [
6], Noor et al. introduced the concept of
-invex set and
-preinvex functions and related all properties, as follows:
Definition 1. Let . The set Ω
is called ϑ-invex at with respect to ϑ and ϕ if for all and . Remark 1. Some special cases of Definition 1 are as follows.
If , then Ω
is called an invex set, see [7] and the references therein. If , then Ω
is called a ϕ-convex set, see [8] and the references therein. If and , then Ω is called a convex set.
Definition 2. A function on the ϕ-invex set Ω
is said to be ϕ-preinvex with respect to ϕ and if holds for all and . The function is said to be ϕ-preconcave if and only if is ϕ-preinvex. Remark 2. Every convex function is a ϕ-preinvex function but not conversely. For example, the function is not a convex function, but it is a ϕ-preinvex function with respect to ϑ and , where Recently, researchers have expanded their work on Hermite-Hadamard-Fejér type inequalities in the fractional domain by using a wide application of fractional calculus. Hermite-Hadamard-Fejér type inequalities for various classes of function have been identified using fractional integrals.
2. Fractional Calculus
Fractional calculus is a branch of mathematics that deals with studying and applying arbitrary order integrals and derivatives. Fractional calculus is a topic that is both ancient and new at the same time. It is an old issue since, beginning with the assumptions of G.W. Leibniz (1695, 1697) and L. Euler (1730), it has been developed and studied up to the present day. There has been a significant increase in interest in fractional calculus in recent years. The applications have fueled that this calculus are found in numerical analysis and several areas of physics and engineering, including, presumably, fractal phenomena. The Hadamard inequality, which is well known in the field of fractional integrals, is the most celebrated inequality that has been studied for fractional integrals. Now, we give the definition of the conformable fractional derivative with its important properties, which are useful in order to obtain our main results, we suggest [
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17] for articles that deal with fractional integral inequalities using various forms of fractional integral operators to solve them.
In this section, we demonstrate some basic definitions related to fractional calculus.
Definition 3. Let and Then the left and right-sided fractional integrals of Riemann–Liouville, we haveandwhere is the Gamma function. In the case , the fractional integral reduces to the classical integral.
We now give the definition of
-fractional integral which is mainly due to [
8].
Definition 4. Let Then for the left-sided and right-sided -fractional integrals of order are defined as:andwhere -gamma function is defined as A description of a conformable fractional derivative was suggested by Khalil et al. [
18]. Consider
is called the fractional derivative for
at
,
satisfies the following properties
Theorem 1. Let and be ρ differentiable at point Then
- (i)
for all
- (ii)
- (iii)
- (iv)
such that κ is constant; and
- (v)
such that
- (vi)
Suppose that a function is differentiable, then
- (vii)
- (viii)
- (ix)
;
- (x)
- (xi)
and
- (xii)
In addition, a function
is called the conformable integral of order
, which is proved in [
18],
if the above integral exists and has a finite value.
Remark 3. where the integral is the usual Riemann improper integral and . The Hermite-Hadamard inequalities formed by Anderson [
19] for conformable fractional integrals are as follows.
Suppose that
is
-fractional differential function with
and
is increasing, then we have
If
is decreasing on
then we have
Remark 4. It is obvious that if we choose , then inequalities (4) and (5) reduce to inequality (1). The Hermite-Hadamard-Fejér type inequality for conformable integrals was suggested by Khurshid et al. in [
20], which is as shown as:
Theorem 2. Suppose such that , is a preinvex function; it is symmetric for and function is a non-negative integrable. Moreover ϑ meets the condition then, we have:retained for any .
The following inequality correlated with the right part of Hermite-Hadamard inequality for preinvex functions is derived.
Theorem 3. Let such that and be an differentiable function on for such that . If is preinvex function, then: This paper is organized as follows: in the next
Section 3, the authors introduce the left and right generalized conformable
-fractional derivatives and integrals, which are the
-analogues of the recently introduced fractional conformable derivatives and integrals. In
Section 4, we establish two new identities of Hermite-Hadamard-Fejér type inequalities by using
-preinvex functions. In
Section 5, we acquire two new weighted approximation versions which are associated with the left and right parts of the Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for the generalized conformable
-fractional by using
-preinvex functions. In
Section 6, we also present some applications to higher moments of continuous random variables, special means, and solutions of the homogeneous linear Cauchy-Euler and
-fractional differential equations to show our new approach. The conclusion is given at the end of this work in
Section 7.
3. Generalized Conformable -Fractional Derivatives and Integrals
Here, we introduce a new definition of a (left and right) generalized conformable -fractional derivative, which is defined as follows:
Definition 5. (Generalized left conformable -fractional derivative)
Let and the (left) -fractional derivative starting from a function with is follows asWhen , we write . If exists on , then . (Generalized right conformable -fractional derivative)
Let , and the (right)-fractional derivative terminating at of a function with is as followsIf exists on , then . Note that if is differentiable then and . It is clear that the conformable -fractional derivative of the constant function is zero.
Remark 5. If we choose , then (6) and (7) reduces the notion of left and right fractional conformable derivatives for a differentiable function introduced by Abdeljawad [21], which is defined asand Correspondingly, (left and right) generalized conformable -fractional integrals for can be represented by
Definition 6. (Generalized left conformable -fractional integral). For a function , then, the generalized left conformable -fractional integral of of order with is defined as (Generalized right -fractional conformable integral). For a function , then, the generalized right conformable -fractional integral of of order with is defined as Remark 6. If we choose , then (8) and (9) reduces the notion of left and right fractional conformable integrals for a function introduced by Abdeljawad [21], which is defined asand Lemma 1. Suppose that is continuous, and with then for all we have Proof. Since
is continuous, then
is clearly differentiable. Hence,
□
Lemma 2. Suppose that is continuous, and with then, for all we have Proof. Similarly we can proved Lemma 2. So we omit the proof. □
Lemma 3. Suppose that is differentiable, and with then, for all we have Proof. Since
is a differentiable function, so
□
Lemma 3 can be generalized for the higher order as follows.
Proposition 1. Let and be times differentiable for . Then, for all , we have Proof. By using definition and Theorem 2.1 in [
18], we have proved Proposition 1. □
Proposition 2. Let and be times differentiable for . Then, for all we have Proof. By using definition and Theorem 2.1 in [
18], we have proved Proposition 2. □
Remark 7. If or with in proposition 2, then,
Theorem 4. (Chain Rule). Suppose that are (left) -differentiable functions, where with . Let Then is (left) -differentiable, and for all τ with and we have Proof. By setting
in the definition and using continuity of
then
□
In this section, we proved the key Lemmas important to prove our main results.
4. Key Lemmas
Throughout this section, we will let , where is a continuous function, is the derivative of with respect to variable , and is the collection of all real-valued Riemann integrable functions defined on and
Lemma 4. Suppose that an open invex set and ϑ is a continuous bifunction, and Let a function be differentiable and with and If be an integrable function it is usually symmetric for thenwhereand with Proof. Let
considering the first integral
Making the change of variable
in the above inequality (
16), we have
Making the change of variable
in the above inequality (
18), we have
By adding (
17) and (
19), we obtain the result that we needed. □
Lemma 5. If is an integrable function, it is usually symmetric for with and Then Proof. Since
is symmetric about
we have
for all
Putting
one obtains
Hence, the proof is complete. □
Lemma 6. Suppose that an open invex set , ϑ is a continuous bifunction, and Let a function be differentiable and with and If is an integrable function, it is usually symmetric for thenwhere,with and Proof. Now
By using the change of variable technique,
in the above equation, we have
For
we have
By using the change of variable technique,
in the above equation, we have
By adding (
24) and (
25), utilizing (
20), we obtain the desired results. □
5. Inequalities for Generalized -Fractional Conformable Integrals
In this section, we present some -analogues of Hermite-Hadamard-Fejér type inequalities for generalized conformable -fractional integrals.
Theorem 5. Suppose that an open invex set , ϑ a continuous bifunction, and Let a function be differentiable, and with and If is an integrable function, which is usually symmetric for . If is a ϕ-preinvex function on Ω, then we have:where and Proof. Using Lemma 4, the modulus property, and
-preinvexity of
on
we have
Change the order of integration in the first term of (
27) to obtain the following result
By the change of variable technique
for every
Consider
we obtain
Analogously, we have
By adding (
30) and (
31), then substituting in (
27), we obtain the desired result. □
Corollary 1. I. Letting in Theorem 5, then, we have a new result II. Letting in Theorem 5, then, we have a new result III. Letting and in Theorem 5, then, we have Theorem 6. Suppose that an open invex set , ϑ is a continuous bifunction, and Let a function be differentiable, and with and If is an integrable function, which is usually symmetric for . If be a ϕ-preinvex function on Ω, then, we have:where and Proof. Using Lemma 6 and the modulus property, we have
From
-preinvexity of
on
we have
We have achieved this by adjusting the order of integration
By the change of variable technique,
, and using the fact that
we have
which is the desired result. □
Corollary 2. I. Letting in Theorem 6, then, we have a new result II. Letting in Theorem 6, then, we have a new result III. Letting and along with in Theorem 6, then, we have a new result IV. Letting in Corollary 2 part III., then, we have a new result 6. Applications
6.1. Random Variable
Suppose that for
is a continuous probability density of a continuous random variable
that is symmetric about
Furthermore, for
, suppose that the
rth moment
is finite.
Letting
on
for
then, the function
is a preinvex function. Therefore, using this function in Corollary 2 part
III., we have
since
is symmetric and
.
Corollary 3. I. Let in (44), and is the expectation of the random variable X, from the above inequality, we obtain the following known bound II. Letting in Corollary 3 part I., we obtain the following known bound 6.2. Special Means
In the literature, the following means for real numbers
are well known:
Consider
for
and a differentiable symmetric to
mapping
Theorem 6 implies the following inequality
Corollary 4. I. Letting in (45), then, we recapture the following result II. Letting in (45), then, we recapture the following result III. Letting in Corollary 4 part II., then, we recapture the following result 6.3. Examples
In this subsection, we use generalized conformable -fractional derivative to solve homogeneous and nonhomogeneous differential equations.
Example 1. Consider the following homogeneous linear Cauchy-Euler -fractional differential equationwhere , and are real constants. We look for a solution of the form . Then, by definition of generalized conformable -fractional derivative, we have and . Substitution of the formulas , and into Equation (46) gives the auxiliary equation of Equation (46), which is . The auxiliary equation of Equation (46) has two roots with three possibilities for solution. The first one, if and are distinct real numbers, is the general solution of the form . If the roots are repeated , then, the solution has the form In the third probability, if the two roots are complex numbers, the general solution has the form . Example 2. Consider the following homogeneous linear -fractional differential equationwhere , and are real constants. We look for a solution of the form . Then, by definition of the generalized conformable -fractional derivative, we have and . Substitution of the formulas , and into Equation (47) gives the auxiliary equation of Equation (47), which is . The auxiliary equation of Equation (47) has two roots with three possibilities for solution. The first one, if and are distinct real numbers, is the general solution of the form If the roots are repeated , then, the solution has the form The third probability, if the two roots are complex numbers, the general solution has the form . 7. Concluding Remarks
The authors of this article presented the left and right sides of generalized conformable -fractional derivatives and integrals on the left and right sides, respectively. We also addressed some new estimates for the lower and upper boundaries of the Hermite-Hadamard-Fej’er type inequality found for -preinvex functions using generalized conformable -fractional integrals, which offer fresh error bounds to the literature for the lower and higher boundaries of the Hermite-Hadamard-Fej’er type inequality for -preinvex functions in fractional domain. Using the results of this study, the reader can deduce a number of previously reported Hermite-Hadamard-Fejér type inequalities, as well as several new Hadamard and -Fejér–Hadamard type inequalities.