Sharp discrete inequalities and applications to discrete variational problems (Q843120)

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Sharp discrete inequalities and applications to discrete variational problems
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    Sharp discrete inequalities and applications to discrete variational problems (English)
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    29 September 2009
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    The starting point is the well-known inequality \[ n\sum_{i=1}^na_i\sum_{i=1}^nb_i\geq\sum_{i=1}^na_ib_i, \] which holds for an increasing sequence \((a_n)\) and for a~decreasing sequence \((b_n)\) (cf.\ the Chebyshev functional and its discrete version). Many related inequalities involving monotonic and convex functions are proved. These results (interesting in their own right) are applied to solve some discrete variational problems.
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    Chebyshev functional
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    discrete inequalities
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    convex functions
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    variational problems
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