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The Jensen inequality is of fundamental importance because of its influential and interesting consequences. In recent years, the Jensen inequality has been supposed to be the most engaging source for research. We present interesting improvements to the continuous version of Jensen's inequality through the application of the concept of 6-convexity. For real visualization and comparison to other results, some numerical experiments were provided. With the aid of the acquired results, improvements for the Hermite-Hadamard and Hölder inequalities were presented. Some relationships between the means were granted as applications of established improvements. In addition, some estimations of the Csiszár divergence and its associated cases were received as further applications of the obtained results. The major techniques employed in formulating the proposed improvements included the Jensen inequality and the concept of convexity.

Abstract In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the discrete Jensen inequality to be satisfied for real (not necessarily nonnegative) weights. The result generalizes and completes the classical Jensen–Steffensen inequality. The validity of the strict inequality is studied. As applications, we first give the form of our result for strongly convex functions, then we study discrete quasi-arithmetic means with real (not necessarily nonnegative) weights, and finally we refine the inequality obtained.

Abstract There are a lot of papers dealing with applications of the so-called cyclic refinement of the discrete Jensen’s inequality. A significant generalization of the cyclic refinement, based on combinatorial considerations, has recently been discovered by the author. In the present paper we give the integral versions of these results. On the one hand, a new method to refine the integral Jensen’s inequality is developed. On the other hand, the result contains some recent refinements of the integral Jensen’s inequality as elementary cases. Finally some applications to the Fejér inequality (especially the Hermite–Hadamard inequality), quasi-arithmetic means, and f-divergences are presented.

The main purpose of this manuscript is to present some new estimations of the Jensen gap in a discrete sense along with their applications. The proposed estimations for the Jensen gap are provided with the help of the notion of 6-convex functions. Some numerical experiments are performed to determine the significance and correctness of the intended estimates. Several outcomes of the main results are discussed for the Hölder inequality and the power and quasi-arithmetic means. Furthermore, some applications are presented in information theory, which provide some bounds for the divergences, Bhattacharyya coefficient, Shannon entropy, and Zipf–Mandelbrot entropy.

In this article, we give sharp two-sided bounds for the generalized Jensen functional Jn(f,g,h;p,x). Assuming convexity/concavity of the generating function h, we give exact bounds for the generalized quasi-arithmetic mean An(h;p,x). In particular, exact bounds are determined for the generalized power means in terms from the class of Stolarsky means. As a consequence, some sharp converses of the famous Hölder’s inequality are obtained.

It is known that the Power Means tend to the maximum of their arguments when the exponents tend to $${+\infty}$$ . We give certain necessary and sufficient conditions for a 1-parameter family of quasi-arithmetic means generated by functions satisfying certain smoothness conditions to have an analogous property. Our results are deeply connected with operators introduced by Mikusiński and Páles in the late 1940s and late 1980s, respectively. The main result is a generalization of the author's earlier results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A variant of Jensen’s operator inequality for convex functions, which is a generalization of Mercer’s result, is proved. Obtained result is used to prove a monotonicity property for Mercer’s power means for operators, and a comparison theorem for quasi-arithmetic means for operators. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A variant of Jensen–Steffensen''s inequality is proved. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the equality in Jensen–Steffensen''s inequality are established. Several inequalities involving more than two monotonic functions and generalized quasi-arithmetic means with not only positive weights are proved. It is shown that such generalized quasi-arithmetic means have the same comparability properties as those with positive weights. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Standard ordering of aggregation operators in several distinguished classes is characterized. Lower and upper bounds of (finite) systems in those classes of aggregation operators are discussed. Several examples are given. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]