Sharp power mean bounds for the one-parameter harmonic mean (Q492554)

Summary: We present the best possible parameters \(\alpha=\alpha(r)\) and \(\beta=\beta(r)\) such that the double inequality \(M_\alpha(a,b)<H_r(a,b)<M_\beta(a,b)\) holds for all \(r\in(0,\;1/2)\) and \(a,b>0\) with \(a\neq b\), where \(M_p(a, b)=[(a^p+b^p)/2]^{1/p}\) (\(p\neq 0\)) and \(M_0(a,b)=\sqrt{ab}\) and \(H_r(a, b)=2[ra+(1-r)b][rb+(1-r)a]/(a+b)\) are the power and one-parameter harmonic means of \(a\) and \(b\), respectively.