Remarks on a convexity theorem of Raşa

DOI10.1007/S00025-020-1156-YMaRDI QIDQ2301580zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Horst Alzer

Publication date 25 February 2020

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00025-020-1156-y

zbMATH Keywords

absolute monotonicityBernstein polynomialscomplete monotonicityinequalitieslog-convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monotonic functions, generalizations (26A48) Convexity of real functions in one variable, generalizations (26A51) Inequalities for sums, series and integrals (26D15)

Review text

Investigating the properties of certain Rényi and Tsallis entropies, the reviewer conjectured in [``Special functions associated with positive linear operators, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1409.1015}] that the sum \[ F_n(x):=\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^n \left[\frac{n}{k}x^k(1-x)^{n-k}\right]^2, x \in [0,1], n=0,1,2,\dots \] of the squared fundamental Bernstein polynomials is a logarithmically convex function. He gave a proof in [the reviewer, Result. Math. 73, No. 3, Paper No. 105, 5 p. (2018; Zbl 1448.94118); Result. Math. 74, No. 4, Paper No. 154, 9 p. (2019; Zbl 1429.26016)]. The paper under review contains a new, simpler proof, based on an integral representation of \(F_n(x)\) and a clever use of Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Moreover, the author proves that \(F_n\) is completely monotonic on \([0, 1/2]\) and absolutely monotonic on \([1/2, 1]\).

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