A sharp lower bound for Toader-Qi mean with applications (Q5964439)

Summary: We prove that the inequality \(\mathrm{TQ}(a, b) > L_p(a, b)\) holds for all \(a, b > 0\) with \(a \neq b\) if and only if \(p \leq 3 / 2\), where \( \mathrm{TQ}(a, b) = (2 / \pi) \int_0^{\pi / 2} a^{\cos^2 \theta} b^{\sin^2 \theta} d \theta\), \(L_p(a, b) = [(b^p - a^p) /(p(b - a))]^{1 / p}\) (\(p \neq 0\)), and \(L_0(a, b) = \sqrt{a b}\) are, respectively, the Toader-Qi and \(p\)-order logarithmic means of \(a\) and \(b\). As applications, we find two fine inequalities chains for certain bivariate means.