1. Introduction
Quantum calculus (also known as calculus with no limits) was initiated by Euler in the eighteenth century (1707–1783). In [
1], F. J. Jackson started a systematic study of q-calculus and introduced the q-definite integrals. He also was the first to develop q-calculus in a systematic way. Some branches of mathematics and physics, such as number theory, orthogonal polynomials, combinatory, basic hypergeometric functions, mechanics, and quantum and relativity theory, have been enriched by the research work of various authors as T. Ernst [
2,
3], H. Gauchman [
4], V. Kac and P. Cheung [
5], and M.E.H. Ismail [
6,
7]. Also, certain famous integral inequalities have been studied in the frame of
q-calculus [
8,
9].
The convexity of a function has played an important role as a tool in the development of inequalities. The relationship of this concept is always present in branches, such as functional analysis, harmonic analysis, specifically in interpolation theory, control theory and optimization, as is shown in the following works C.P. Niculescu [
10], C. Bennett and R. Sharpley [
11], N.A. Nguyen et. al. [
12], Ş. Mititelu and S. Trenţă [
13], S. Trenţă [
14,
15]. This property was defined by J.L.W.V. Jensen in the following works [
16,
17] as follows.
Definition 1. A function is said to be convex on ifholds for every and It is well known that modern analysis directly or indirectly involves the applications of convexity. Due to its applications and significant importance, the concept of convexity has been extended and generalized in several directions. The concept of convexity and its variant forms have played a fundamental role in the development of various fields. Various types of generalized convexity have appeared in different research works, some of them modify the domain or range of the function, always maintaining the basic structure of a convex function. Among them are: s-convexity in the first and second sense [
18], P-convexity [
19], MT-convexity [
20], and others [
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26].
The following inequality, named the Ostrowski inequality, is one of the most famous inequalities in the literature.
Theorem 1. Let be a differentiable function on such that and with If where M is a real positive number, then the following inequality holds: The Ostrowski type inequality has remained a subject of great interest due to its wide applications in the field of mathematical analysis [
27]. For other recent results that generalize, improve, and extend the inequality (
1) through various class functions, for example, functions of bounded variation, Lipschitzian, monotone, absolutely continuous, convex,
s-convex,
h-convex, and
-convex among others, the studies [
18,
28,
29,
30,
31,
32] have appeared.
2. Preliminaries
Let K be a non empty closed set in and be a continuous function.
M.A. Noor, in [
33], introduced a new class of non-convex functions, the so-called
-convex as follows:
Definition 2. The function on the ϕ-convex set K is said to be ϕ-convex, if The function f is said to be -concave if is -convex. Note that every convex function is -convex but the converse does not hold in general.
R.K. Raina, in [
34], introduced a class of functions defined by
where
and
is a bounded sequence of positive real numbers. Note that, if we take in (
2)
and
where
and
are parameters which can take arbitrary real or complex values (provided that
and the symbol
denotes the quantity
and we restrict its domain to
(with
), then we have the classical hypergeometric function, that is
Also, if
with
and if we restrict its domain to
in (
2) then we have the classical Mittag–Leffler function
Finally, let us recall the new class of sets and new class of functions involving Raina’s function introduced by Vivas-Cortez et al. in [
35]: the so-called generalized
-convex set and also the generalized
-convex function. The usefulness of this definition lies in the generality of the type of special function focused on. The
,
and
parameters determine the particular special function considered. Just as the definition used by Noor in [
33] considers the
function as a parameter, in the framework of complex values, the following definition emulates it in the field of real numbers.
Definition 3. Let and be bounded sequences of positive real numbers. A non empty set K is said to be a generalized ϕ-convex set, ifwhere is Raina’s function. Definition 4. Let and be bounded sequences of positive real numbers. If a function satisfies the following inequalityfor all and then f is called generalized ϕ-convex. Remark 1. Taking in definition 4, then we obtain definition 1. Also, under a suitable choice of we find definition 2.
Recently several authors have utilized quantum calculus as a strong tool in establishing other inequalities, see [
5,
36,
37,
38,
39,
40] and the references therein.
We recall now some concepts from quantum calculus. Let be an interval and be a constant.
Definition 5. [39] Let be a continuous function and Then the q-derivative of f on I at x is defined asWe say that f is q-differentiable on I provided exists for all Note that if in (5), then where is the well-known q-derivative of the function defined by Definition 6. [39] Let be a continuous function. Then the q-integral on I is defined byfor Note that if then we have the classical q-integral, which is defined byfor Theorem 2. [39] Assume that are continuous functions, Then, for we have Definition 7. [5] For any real number is called the q-analogue of In particular, if we denote Definition 8. [5] If the q-analogue of is the polynomial Definition 9. [5] For any is called the q-Beta function. Note thatwhere is the q-analogue of Noor M. A. et al. in [
31], established the following
q-integral identity.
Lemma 1. Let be a q-differentiable function on with be continuous and integrable on where Then the following identity holds: Motivated by the above literatures, the paper is organized as follows: The Main Results section is divided in two subsections; the first is a study about quantum estimates for Ostrowski inequalities using the generalized class of special functions defined by Raina R.K., and the second subsection presents some Ostrowski type inequalities for certain special functions derived from the previous results. We will use an identity for q-differentiable functions involving Raina’s function and applying this identity, we develop some quantum estimates of Ostrowski type inequalities for the generalized -convex function. Various special cases will be obtained.
3. Main Results
This section is subdivided in two subsections. The first is about some quantum estimates for Ostrowski inequalities using the class of functions defined by Raina R.K., and in the second subsection are results about these quantum estimates for the hypergeometric function and the Mittag–Leffler function.
3.1. Quantum Estimates for Ostrowski Inequality
We denote for where and is a bounded sequence of positive real numbers. Also, for convenience we denote for where
We first derive a new quantum integral identity for q-differentiable functions involving Raina’s function.
Lemma 2. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on Then the following identity holds:where Proof. Let denote, respectively,
and
Using Definitions 5 and 6, we have
Adding (
7) and (
8), we get (
6).
The proof is complete. □
Remark 2. Taking in Lemma 2, we obtain the following new identity:where Remark 3. Letting and in Lemma 2 we have for all , and so we get Lemma 1.
Now, applying Lemma 2, we establish some quantum estimates of Ostrowski type inequalities for generalized -convex functions.
Theorem 3. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on O for and then the following inequality holds:where is the q-analogue of Proof. Using Lemma 2, Hölder’s inequality and the fact that
is generalized
-convex function, we have
The proof is complete. □
Corollary 1. Taking the limit when in Theorem 3, we obtain Corollary 2. Additionally, if for some in Theorem 3, then the following inequality holds Remark 4. Letting and in the Raina’s function then we have for all , so from Corollary 2, we obtain Theorem 3.2 in [31]. Theorem 4. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on then for the following inequality holds: Proof. Using Lemma 2, the well-known power mean inequality and the fact that
is a generalized
-convex function, we have
The proof is complete. □
Corollary 3. Taking the limit when in Theorem 4, we find Corollary 4. Additionally, if for some in Theorem 4, then we obtain Remark 5. Letting and in Raina’s function then we have for all , so from Corollary 4 we obtain Theorem 3.1 in [31]. Theorem 5. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on then for the following inequality holds: Proof. Using Lemma 2, the well-known power mean inequality and the fact that
is a generalized
-convex function, we have
The proof is complete. □
Corollary 5. Taking the limit when in Theorem 5, we find Corollary 6. Additionally, if for some in Theorem 5, then we have Remark 6. Letting and in Raina’s function, then we have for all . In Corollary 6, we find 3.2. Quantum Estimates Using the Hypergeometric and Mittag–Leffler Functions
As it was mentioned in the Preliminaries section, for a particular selection of choices for the parameters
, and
in Raina’s function (
2), it is possible to find expressions using the hypergeometric function and the Mittag–Leffler function, between others, so we can establish similar results to those found in the Main Results section for these special functions.
3.2.1. For the Hypergeometric Function
Letting in (
2)
and
then from Lemma 2, Theorem 3, Theorem 4, and Theorem 5, the following results hold.
Lemma 3. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on Then the following identity holds:where Theorem 6. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on O for and then the following inequality holds:where is the q-analogue of Theorem 7. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on then for the following inequality holds: Theorem 8. Let be a q-differentiable function on with be continuous and integrable on If is generalized ϕ-convex on then for the following inequality holds: 3.2.2. For the Mittag-Leffler Function
Letting
,
and
in (
2), then from Lemma 2, Theorem 3, Theorem 4, and Theorem 5, the following results hold.
Lemma 4. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on Then the following identity holds:where Theorem 9. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on O for and then the following inequality holds:where is the q-analogue of Theorem 10. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on then for the following inequality holds: Theorem 11. Let be a q-differentiable function on with considered continuous and integrable on If is generalized as ϕ-convex on then for the following inequality holds: 4. Conclusions
In the present study, certain new Ostrowski type inequalities have been established: Theorems 3–5, through the use of the identity established in Lemma 2, within the framework of quantum calculus and a class of parametrized special functions. From these results, particular cases for hypergeometric and Mittag–Leffler functions have been deduced. It is expected that from the results obtained, and following the methodology applied, additional special functions may also be evaluated. Future works can be developed in the area of numerical analysis and even contributions using quantum algorithms, using the theorems and corollaries presented. Finally, our results can be applied to derive some inequalities using special means. We omit their proof and the details are left to the interested reader.
Author Contributions
All authors contributed equally in the preparation of the present work: the theorems and corollaries M.J.V.-C., A.K., R.L. and J.E.H.H., the review of the articles and books cited M.J.V.-C., A.K., R.L. and J.E.H.H.; formal analysis M.J.V.-C., A.K., R.L. and J.E.H.H.; writing–original draft preparation and writing–review and editing M.J.V.-C., A.K., R.L. and J.E.H.H.
Funding
This research was funded by Dirección de Investigación from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador as a part of the research project entitled: Some inequalities using generalized convexity.
Acknowledgments
Miguel J. Vivas-Cortez thanks to Dirección de Investigación from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and Jorge E. Hernández Hernández thanks to Consejo de Desarrollo Científico, Humanístico y Tecnológico from Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (Venezuela) for the technical support given in the development of the present article, the first under the project entitled: Algunas desigualdades de funciones convexas generalizadas (Some inequalities of generalized convex functions). Also, all the authors thanks to the appointed referees for their appropriate comments in the evaluation of this work and to the editorial team from Symmetry for the serious and responsible work performed.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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