Three inequalities that characterize the exponential function

DOI10.1007/S00010-024-01115-8MaRDI QIDQ6963429zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David M. Bradley

Publication date 7 July 2025

Published in Aequationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00010-024-01115-8

zbMATH Keywords

Bernoulli's inequalityCauchy's exponential functional equationconvexity inequalityexponential functionfunctional inequalities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities involving other types of functions (26D07) Exponential and trigonometric functions (33B10) Functional equations for real functions (39B22) Functional inequalities, including subadditivity, convexity, etc. (39B62)

Review text

The following theorem is proved.\N\NTheorem. If the function \(f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfies the inequalities \N\[\Nf(2x) \geq f^2(x),\N\]\Nand \N\[\Nf(0)\geq f(x)f(-x),\N\]\Nfor all real \(x\), and the inequality \N\[\Nf(x) \geq 1+x,\N\]\Nfor all sufficiently small \(|x|\), then \(f=\exp\). None of the conditions can be omitted.

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• Analytic Inequalities
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