AN EXTENSION OF A THEOREM OF FLETT

DOI10.1515/DEMA-1999-0206MaRDI QIDQ4258339zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Iwona Pawlikowska

Publication date 8 February 2001

Published in Demonstratio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/dema-1999-0206

zbMATH Keywords

differentiabilityFlett's theoremmean value theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

One-variable calculus (26A06) Differentiation (real functions of one variable): general theory, generalized derivatives, mean value theorems (26A24)

Review text

\textit{T. M. Flett} [Math. Gaz. 42, 38-39 (1958)] proved the following variant of the Lagrange mean value theorem: If \(f\) is differentiable in \([a,b]\) with \(f'(a)=f'(b)\), then there is an \(\eta \in (a,b)\) such that \(f(\eta)-f(a) = (\eta-a) f'(\eta)\). This was refined by \textit{P. K. Sahoo} and \textit{T. Riedel} [``Mean value theorems and functional equations, World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edje, NJ (1998)] as follows: If \(f\) is differentiable in \([a,b]\), then there is an \(\eta\in(a,b)\) such that \(f(\eta)-f(a)=(\eta-a)f'(\eta)-\frac 1 2 \frac{f'(b)-f'(a)}{b-a} (\eta-a)^2\). The question arises if there is an extension of this mean value theorem for functions of higher differentiability, in analogy to Taylor's theorem. This question is answered in the present paper. The author proves, quite elegantly, the following: If \(f\) is \(n\) times differentiable in \([a,b]\), then there exists an \(\eta\in (a,b)\) such that \[ f(\eta)-f(a) = \sum_{k=1}^n (-1)^{k-1} \frac{1}{k!} f^{(k)}(\eta) (\eta-a)^k + (-1)^n \frac{1}{(n+1)!} \frac{f^{(n)}(b)-f^{(n)}(a)}{b-a} (\eta-a)^{n+1}. \]

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