New integral representations of nth order convex functions

Abstract: In this paper we give an integral representation of an

n

-convex function

f

in general case without additional assumptions on function

f

. We prove that any

n

-convex function can be represented as a sum of two

(n + 1)

-times monotone functions and a polynomial of degree at most

n

. We obtain a decomposition of

n

-Wright-convex functions which generalizes and complements results of Maksa and Pales (2009). We define and study relative

n

-convexity of

n

-convex functions. We introduce a measure of

n

-convexity of

f

. We give a characterization of relative

n

-convexity in terms of this measure, as well as in terms of

n

th order distributional derivatives and Radon-Nikodym derivatives. We define, study and give a characterization of strong

n

-convexity of an

n

-convex function

f

in terms of its derivative

f^{(n + 1)} (x)

(which exists a.e.) without additional assumptions on differentiability of

f

. We prove that for any two

n

-convex functions

f

and

g

, such that

f

is

n

-convex with respect to

g

, the function

g

is the support for the function

f

in the sense introduced by Wasowicz (2007), up to polynomial of degree at most

n

.

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