Superadditivity of the Levinson functional and applications (Q313465)

We study the Levinson functional, constructed as a difference between the right-hand side and the left-hand side of the Levinson inequality. We show that it possesses the properties of superadditivity and monotonicity. As a consequence, we obtain mutual bounds for this functional, expressed via the non-weighted functional of the same type. In this way, a refinement and a converse of the Levinson inequality in a difference form is obtained.