The Ostrowski integral inequality for mappings of bounded variation (Q4940643)

The following generalization of the Ostrowski integral inequality for mappings of bounded variation is proved. Let \(I_{k}:a=x_{0}<x_{1}<\cdots <x_{k-1}<x_{k}=b\) be a division of the interval \([a,b]\) and \(\alpha _{i}\) \((i=0,\dots ,k+1)\) be \(k+2\) points so that \(\alpha_{0}=a,\alpha_{i}\in [x_{i-1},x_{i}]\) \((i=1,\dots,k)\) and \(\alpha _{k+1}=b\). If \(f:[a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is of bounded variation on \([a,b]\) then we have the inequality \[ \left|\int_{a}^{b}f(x)dx- \sum_{i=0}^{k}(\alpha _{i+1}-\alpha _{i})f(x_{i})\right|\leq \nu (I_{k})V_{a}^{b}(f), \] where \(\nu (I_{k}):=\max \{x_{i+1}- x_{i}\left|i=0,\dots,k-1\right\}\) and \(V_{a}^{b}(f)\) is the total variation of \(f\) on \([a,b]\).