Monotonic functions and an inequality of Myerson on point distributions (Q1897550)

\textit{G. Myerson} [Indag. Math., New Ser. 3, 193-201 (1992; Zbl 0758.11035)]\ studied several concepts of distances and discrepancies of point distributions on the unit interval. The ``distance'' of two \(n\)- element point sets \(S= \{s_i \}\) and \(T= \{t_i \}\) (both in increasing order) is defined by \(|S- T|= \max_i \{|s_i- t_i|\}\). This paper contains a general inequality for distribution functions proving a conjecture of Myerson, namely \[ |D_p (S)^p- D_p (T)^p |\leq |S-T |, \] where \(D_p (S)\) denotes the \(L_p\)-discrepancy of the point set \(S\) (for \(p\geq 1\)).