General Opial type inequality (Q2350267)

In this paper, the authors considered two functions which are convex (concave, respectively) and use them to establish a new general inequality on a measure space \((\Omega,\Sigma,\mu)\). Specifically, the following result was established and proved: Let \(k:\Omega \times \Omega \to \mathbb{R}\) be a symmetric nonnegative or nonpositive function. If \(f\) is a positive convex function, \(g\) is a positive concave function on an interval \(I\subseteq \mathbb{R}\), \(v:\Omega \to \mathbb{R}\) is either nonnegative or nonpositive such that \(\operatorname{Im}|v| \subseteq I\) and \(u\) is defined by \(u(x)=\int_{\Omega}k(x,y)u(y)d\mu(y),\) then the inequality \[ \int_{\Omega}|K(x)| f\left(\left|\frac{u(x)}{K(x)}\right|\right)g\left(\left| v(x)\right|\right)d\mu(x) \leq \int_{\Omega}|K(x)| f(| v(x)|)g\left(\left|\frac{u(x)}{K(x)}\right|\right)d\mu(x) \] holds, where \(K(x)=\int_{\Omega}k(x,y)d\mu(y).\) By considering the special symmetric function \(k\), some new results involving the Green functions, Lidstone series and Hermite interpolating polynomials are derived, proved and discussed. These results are of Opial type inequality because the integrals contain a function and its integral representation.