1. Introduction
Recently, fractional calculus has been the focus of attention for researchers not only in the field of mathematics but also in fields such as physics [
1], nanotechnology [
2], medicine [
3], bioengineering [
4], economy [
5,
6], fluid mechanics [
7], epidemiology [
8], and control systems [
9]. Fractional calculus is also used in the modeling of diseases [
10,
11] and solving optimal control problems [
12]. In the last decades, fractional calculus has become very popular due to its behavior and wide range of applications in different fields of sciences. Researchers derive new fractional operators and utilize them to solve many real-world problems based on their basic properties. They also employ these new fractional operators to improve several well-known integral inequalities such as
inequality [
13], Ostrowski inequality [
14], Simpson inequality [
15], Bullen-type inequality [
16], Fejer-type inequality [
17], Jensen–Mercer-type inequality [
18], and Opial-type inequalities [
19]. We suggest interested readers to see the articles [
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27] for a better understanding of developments of fractional integral inequalities.
Caputo and Fabrizio in [
28] investigated a new fractional operator, having a nonsingular kernel in its fractional derivatives without the Gamma function. The most satisfying feature of this operator is that if we use Laplace transformation, then any real power can be turned into an integer order. Consequently, this property enables us to get solutions to several related problems. This Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operator is used to investigate many real-life problems such as the modeling of COVID-19 [
29], modeling of Hepatitis-B epidemic [
30], groundwater flow [
31], etc.
In this article, we restrict ourselves to the use of Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operators for integral inequalities. We have established new versions of Hermite–Hadamard and Pachpatte-type inequalities using differintegral of type, which provides a new and different direction in the advancement of Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operator with the aid of inequalities.
The classical Hermite–Hadmard inequality is stated as follows (see [
32]):
If
is convex in
for
and
, then
The
inequality plays an amazing and magnificent role in the literature. Several mathematicians have employed various convexities to improve this inequality. We suggest interested readers to go through the articles [
13,
33,
34,
35,
36,
37,
38,
39,
40] for interesting and different versions of
inequality.
The main reason for writing this article is to combine the Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operator with inequalities such as
, the Pachpatte type, and the Dragomir Agarwal type for the convex function. The rest of the article is structured as follows. First, we review some fundamental concepts and notions about fractional calculus and integral inequalities.
Section 3 deals with presenting inequalities of
type and the Pachpatte type employing the Caputo–Fabrizio fractional integral operator for convex functions. We devote
Section 4 toward deriving a new integral equality of the Caputo–Fabrizio type. Then, considering this equality, some new estimations of
type-related inequalities are discussed. Applications of the results are investigated in
Section 5. Finally, in the last
Section 6, a brief conclusion is given.
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we recall some known concepts related to our main results.
Definition 1 (see Refs. [
41,
42]).
Let be a convex subset of a real vector space and let be a function. Then, a function is said to be convex, ifholds for all and To additionally encourage the conversation of this article, we present the definition of the Riemann–Liouville fractional operator.
Definition 2 (see Ref. [
13]).
Let . Then, R-L fractional integrals and of order are defined byandwhere is the Gamma function. In [
13], Sarikaya et al. proved the following Hadamard-type inequalities for R-L fractional integrals as follows:
Theorem 1 (see Ref. [
13]).
Let be a positive mapping with , and as fractional operators. If is a convex function, then the following inequality for fractional integrals holds: In [
43], Sarikaya and Yildirm proved the following mid-point type Hermite–Hadamard inequality for R-L fractional integrals as follows:
Theorem 2 (see Ref. [
43]).
Let be a positive mapping with , , and as fractional operators. If is a convex function, then the following inequality for fractional integrals holds: After these articles, mathematicians started applying different fractional operators to improve integral inequalities of
type; for example, see [
36,
44,
45,
46].
To facilitate further discussion on fractional calculus and inequalities, we present the definition of Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operators and some basic notions related to the theory of inequalities.
Definition 3 (see Refs. [
28,
46,
47,
48]).
Let , then the notion of left and right Caputo–Fabrizio fractional integrals are defined by,andwhere is a normalization function that satisfies . Remark 1. It is worth mentioning that the Caputo–Fabrizio fractional integral in Definition 3 is corresponding to the Caputo–Fabrizio fractional derivative as defined in [28,46,47,48]. One can see that the exponential kernel in the Caputo–Fabrizio fractional derivative will be convergent if the order ζ is between 0
and 1.
Definition 4 (Hölder’s inequality [
49]).
Let and . If and are real functions defined on and if and are integrable on , then the following inequality holds: Definition 5 (Power-mean inequality [
49]).
Let . If and are real functions defined on and if , are integrable on , then the following inequality holds: Definition 6 (Hölder-İşcan integral inequality [
49]).
Let and . If and are real functions defined on and if and are integrable on , then the following inequality holds: 3. Integral Inequalities via Caputo–Fabrizio Fractional Integral Operator for Convex Functions
Theorem 3. Let be a convex function on such that and . Then, for and as the normalizaton function, the following fractional inequality holds: Proof. Since
is a convex function on
, we can write
Multiplying both sides of the above Equation (
7) with
and then adding
Reorganizing the above inequality gives,
This completes the proof of the first part. For the second inequality, we use
Using the same procedure as above, we have
Reorganizing the above numbered Equations (
8) and (
9), we have the desired inequality
This led us to the desired result. □
Pachpatte-Type Inequality: Product of Two Convex Functions
In this section, we present an inequality taking product of two convex functions in the frame of Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operators.
Theorem 4. Let be differentiable functions on such that with and . If be convex functions, then for , the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function, and . Proof. Since
and
are convex function on
, ∀
,
and
Multiplying both the above inequalities side by side, we have
Adding both the inequalities (
11) and (
12) and then integrating with respect to
over [0,1]
Multiplying both sides by
and then adding
Using the definition Caputo–Fabrizio integral operator, we have
After suitable rearrangements, we have the desired result
□
4. Dragomir–Agarwal-Type Inequalities: Refinements of H-H Type Inequalities
This section deals with deriving a new identity for differentiable convex functions that involve Caputo–Fabrizio fractional integral operators. Then, taking this identity into account and with the help of some fundamental integral inequalities such as Hölder inequality, Hölder-İşcan integral inequality, power-mean inequality, Young’s inequality, and Jensen inequality, several refinements are presented.
Lemma 1. Let be a differentiable function on such that with and . Then, for , the following fractional equality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. It can easily be verified that
Multiplying both sides by
and then adding
, we have
This completes the proof of the desired equality. □
Theorem 5. Let be a differentiable function on such that with and . If is a convex function, then for , the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. From Lemma 1 and properties of modulus, we have
Using convexity of
Using the above computations in Equation (
13), we have
This led us to the desired inequality. □
Theorem 6. Let be a convex function on such that with and . If is a convex function, then for , and the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. The convexity of
, produces
and
Employing Lemma 1 and the Hölder inequality, we have
This led us to the desired inequality. □
Theorem 7. Let be a convex function on such that with and . If be a convex function, then for and , the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. From Lemma 1 and using the power mean inequality,
This led us to the desired inequality. □
Theorem 8. Let be a differentiable function on such that with and . If is a convex function, then, for and the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. From Lemma 1 and Young’s inequality
This led us to the desired result. □
Theorem 9. Let be a differentiable function on such that with and . Then, for , the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. From Lemma 1 and Jensen inequality,
This led us to the desired inequality. □
Theorem 10. Let be a differentiable function on such that with and . If is a convex function, then for , and the following fractional inequality holds:where is the normalizaton function. Proof. The convexity of
, produces
and
Employing Lemma 1 and the Hölder-İşcan integral inequality,
This led us to the desired inequality. □
5. Trapezoidal Quadrature Formula
Here, we present an application involving error estimation for the trapezoidal quadrature formula by using the results presented in
Section 4. Let
be a partition of the closed interval
Let us define
and
where
is the associated remainder term.
From the above notations, we can obtain some new bounds regarding error estimation.
Proposition 1. Consider a function , which is differentiable on with . If and is a convex function. Then, the following inequality holds: Proof. Applying Theorem 5 on the subinterval
for
, we have
Summing over i from 0 to and using the property of the modulus, we get the desired inequality. □
Proposition 2. Consider a function , which is differentiable on with . If and is a convex function, then for and the following inequality holds: Proof. Applying Theorem 6 on the subinterval
for
, we have
Summing over i from 0 to and using the property of the modulus, the desired inequality is obtained. □
Proposition 3. Consider a function , which is differentiable on with . If and is a convex function, then the following inequality holds: Proof. Applying Theorem 9 on the subinterval
for
, we have
Summing over i from 0 to and using the property of the modulus, the desired inequality is obtained. □
Application to Special Means
Now, we propose some applications to special means of real numbers related to our established results.
- 1.
- 2.
The generalized logarithmic mean
- 3.
Proposition 4. Let , then Proof. In Theorem 5, setting with and completes the proof. □
Proposition 5. Let , then In Theorem 5, setting with and completes the proof.
Proposition 6. Let , then In Theorem 5, setting with and completes the proof.
6. Conclusions
The utilization of different fractional operators in the field of integral inequalities has kept the interest of several mathematicians. The Caputo–Fabrizio fractional operator plays an important role in recent advancements related to differential equations, modeling, and mathematical inequalities. Here, we used a fractional operator that has a nonsingular kernel. Our established new versions of and Pachpatte-type inequalities deals with differeintegrals of type, which are new in the literature for Caputo–Fabrizio fractional inequalities. In addition, to provide improvements to -type inequalities, a new identity for differentiable mappings is proved. The accuracy of the results is validated through some application to special means. For future work, we will apply this new fractional operator to improve inequalities of the Ostrowski type, Jensen–Mercer type, and Hermite–Hadmard–Mercer type. We will also try to apply this operator to present Hermite–Hadamard inequality on coordinated convex functions.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, S.K.S., P.O.M. and B.K.; methodology, B.K. and M.T.; software, S.K.S., P.O.M. and M.T.; validation, P.O.M., B.K. and Y.S.H.; formal analysis, S.K.S., P.O.M., B.K., M.T. and Y.S.H.; investigation, S.K.S. and P.O.M.; writing—original draft preparation, S.K.S., P.O.M. and M.T.; writing—review and editing, S.K.S. and P.O.M.; supervision, B.K. and Y.S.H.; project administration, S.K.S. and P.O.M.; funding acquisition, Y.S.H. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
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Data Availability Statement
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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the Taif University Researchers Supporting Project (No. TURSP 2020/155), Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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