A sequence of mappings associated with the Hermite-Hadamard inequalities and applications. (Q851615)

The point of departure of the paper is the Hermite-Hadamard inequality \[ f\left (\frac {a+b}2\right ) \leq \frac 1{b-a}\int _a^ bf(t)\,\text dt \leq \frac {f(a)+f(b)}2, \] which holds for convex functions. The author studies sequences of functions defined by multiple integrals \[ H_n(t):= \frac 1{(b-a)^ n} \int _a^ b\cdots \int _a^ b f\left (t\frac {x_1+\dots +x_n}n +(1-t)\frac {a+b}2\right ) dx_1\dots dx_{n} \] and proves plenty of results about them. First, basic properties of \(H_n\) are established such as convexity, monotonicity (both in \(n\) and in \(t\)) and various lower and upper bounds. The differences \(H_n(t)-f\left (\frac {a+b}2\right )\) and \(tH_n(1)+(1-t)H_n(0)-H_n(t)\) are also studied and several bounds for them are given.