1. Introduction
Several branches of mathematical and engineering science have been developed by using the crucial and significant concepts of convex analysis. Inequalities present a very active and fascinating field of research. In recent years, a wide class of integral inequalities is being derived via different concepts of convexity. These integral inequalities are useful in Physics, where upper bounds for natural phenomena described by integrals such as mechanical work (virtual work) are required. Integral inequalities are closely related to the convex functions and their variant forms.
Convexity theory is an effective and powerful technique for studying a wide class of problems which arise in various branches of pure and applied sciences. Several new classes of convex functions and convex sets have been introduced and investigated. Various new inequalities related to these new classes of convex functions have been derived by researchers—see, for example, Refs. [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13] and the reference therein.
However, it is amazing that convexity allows many diversified applications in every branch of pure and applied sciences. It is said that
is a convex function, if and only if it satisfies the inequality
which is called the Hermite–Hadamard inequality for convex function (see [
12,
13,
14,
15,
16]). For the novel applications of the Hermite-Hadamard Inequality (
1) (see [
7]). Hanson [
8] introduced and investigated another class of generalized convex functions, which is called invex functions. Ben-Israel and Mond [
17] introduced the concepts of invex sets and preinvex functions. They have shown that the differentiable preininvex functions are invex functions, but the converse may not be true. These preinvex functions are not convex functions, but they enjoy some nice properties, which convex functions have. It is known that the invex functions and preinvex functions are equivalent under some suitable conditions, see [
10]. Noor [
11,
13] has shown that a function
f is a preinvex function on
, if and only if, it satisfies the inequality
which is called Hermite-Hadamard-Noor type inequality. Several integral inequalities for various type of preinvex functions have been obtained in recent years. For more details, see [
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31] and the references therein.
In this paper, we introduce a new class of preinvex functions with respect to two nonnegative arbitrary functions and , which is called -preinvex function. We establish some new Hermite-Hadamarad inequality for -preinvex function. Some special cases are also discussed which can be obtained from our results.
2. Preliminaries
We now define some new classes of preinvex functions involving two arbitrary functions. Let be a set and be a continuous bifunction.
First of all, we recall the following well known concepts and results.
Definition 1 ([
9,
17,
19])
. A set is said to be invex set with respect to the bifunction , if and only if The invex set
is also called
-connected set. Note that, if
, this means that every convex set is an invex set, but the converse is not true (see [
9]).
From now onward, the set is an invex set, unless otherwise it is specified.
We now consider a new class of preinvex function with respect to two arbitrary functions and .
Definition 2. Letbe two nonnegative functions and Ω
be an invex set. A function is said to be a - preinvex function, if Note that for
, we have Jensen type
-preinvex function, that is,
We now discuss several special cases.
(I). If and in Definition 2, then we have a new class of s-preinvex functions.
Definition 3. Letbe a real number and Ω
be an invex set. We say that is a s-preinvex function, if Definition 4. Letbe two real numbers and Ω
be an invex set. We say that is an -preinvex functions, if (II). If and in Definition 2, then we have a new class of preinvex functions, which is called Godunova–Levin -preinvex functions.
Definition 5. Letbe two real numbers and Ω
be an invex set. We say that is a -preinvex functions, if For appropriate and suitable choice of functions
,
and the bifunction, one can obtain several new and known classes of preinvex functions and convex functions as special cases. See, for example, [
1,
3,
4,
11,
21,
22,
24,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31]. This shows that the concept of
-preinvex function is quite a general and unifying one.
We need the following result.
Lemma 1. Let be a continuous function. Then, for some fixed Proof. Using the change of variables,
we have
which is the required result. □
We recall the special functions which are known as Gamma function and Beta function, respectively:
In addition, we recall the well known fact about the bifunction
3. Main Results
In this section, we establish several new Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for -preinvex functions.
Theorem 1. Let be -preinvex function with and , . If and Equation (5) holds, then we have Proof. Let
f be an
-preinvex function. Then, from inequality (2), we have
Substituting
and
in (
6) and using (
5), we have
From inequality (
6), we have
Integrating the above inequality with respect to
t over [0,1], we have
Using the change of variable technique,
, we have
Thus,
which is the required result. □
We now discuss the new special cases of Theorem 1.
(III). If
and
, then under the assumptions of Theorem 1, then we have a new result for Breckner type of
-preinvex functions:
where
denotes the beta as a special function.
(IV). If
and
, under the assumptions of Theorem 1, then we have a new result for Godunova–Levin type of
-preinvex function:
Theorem 2. Let be a continuous function. If f is a -preinvex function, then, for some fixed where Proof. Using Lemma 1 and the fact that
f is a
-preinvex function, we have
which completes the proof. □
The next results are special cases of Theorem 2.
(V). If
and
under the assumption of Theorem 2, then we have a new result for Breckner type of
-preinvex functions, we have
where
(VI). If
and
, under the assumption of Theorem 2, then we have a new result for Godunova–Levin type of
-preinvex functions, we have
where
Theorem 3. Let be a continuous function. If is a -preinvex function, then for some fixed where Proof. Using Lemma 1, Holder’s inequality and the fact that
is a
-preinvex function, we have
which completes the proof. □
The following results are some special cases of Theorem 3.
(VII). If
and
in Theorem 3, then we have a Breckner type of
-preinvex function:
(VIII). If
and
in Theorem 3, then we have Godunova–Levin type
-preinvex function:
We now derive some some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for differentiable -preinvex function. For this, we need the following result which can be proved using integration by parts. For the sake of completeness, we include its proof.
Lemma 2. Letbe a differentiable preinvex function on the interiorof Ω
with . If is -preinvex function and , then where Proof. Thus
the required result. □
Theorem 4. Letbe a differentiable preinvex function on the interiorof Ω
with . If and is a -preinvex function on Ω
for and , then where is defined by (7) and Proof. Using Lemma 2 and the power mean inequality, we have
the required result. □
For appropriate and suitable choice of q and , we obtain several new results for the example midpoint, Trapezoidal, three point Trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s rule.
Corollary 1. If , then, under the assumption of Theorem 4, we have Corollary 2. If , then under the assumption of Theorem 4, we have two points midpoint, which iswhere and are given by (9), (10), (12) and (13), respectively. Corollary 3. If , then, under the assumption of Theorem 4, we have Trapezoidal rule, which iswhere and are given by (8)–(13), respectively. Corollary 4. If , then, under the assumption of Theorem 4, we have the three points Trapezoidal rulewhere and are given by (8)–(13), respectively. Corollary 5. If , then, under the assumption of Theorem 4, we have Simpson’s rulewhere and are given by (8)–(13), respectively. Theorem 5. Letbe a differentiable preinvex function on the interiorof Ω
with . If and is a -preinvex function on Ω
for and , then where Proof. Using Lemma 2 and the Holder’s integral inequality, we have
Using the definition of
-preinvex function of
, we obtain the inequality (
3):
and
A combination of (
14)–(
15) gives the inequality (16). □
For appropriate and suitable choice of , we obtain several new results for two points midpoint, Trapezoidal rule, three point Trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s rule.
Theorem 6. Letbe a differentiable preinvex function on the interiorof Ω
with . If and is a -preinvex function on Ω
for and , then where Proof. Using Lemma 2 and the Holder’s integral inequality, we have
the required result. □
For appropriate and suitable choice of , we obtain several new results for two points midpoint, Trapezoidal rule, three points Trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s rule.
4. Conclusions
In this paper, we have established several Hermite–Hadamard type inequalities for -preinvex functions. These results can be viewed as refinement and significant improvements of the previously known and new classes of preinvex functions. The ideas and techniques of this paper may be extended for other classes of convex functions and their variant forms.
Author Contributions
Authors contributions are as: conceptualization, M.A.N. and K.I.N.; methodology, S.R.; validation, M.A.N., K.I.N. and S.R.; resources, K.I.N. writing—original draft preparation, M.A.N. and S.R.; writing—review and editing, M.A.N.; supervision, M.A.N.; project administration, K.I.N.; funding acquisition, S.R.
Funding
This research is supported by the Higher Education Commission(HEC) of Pakistan Project Grant No.: 20-1966/R&D/11-2553.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Rector, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan for providing excellent research and academic environments. The authors are grateful to the referees for their very constructive and valuable comments.
Conflicts of Interest
All the authors declare no conflict of interest.
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