Abstract
In this paper we give a refinement of Jensen’s integral inequality and its generalization for linear functionals. We also present some applications in Information Theory.
1 Introduction
Let C be a convex subset of the linear space X and f be a convex function on C. If p = (p1, ... pn) is probability sequence and x = (x1, ... xn) ∈ Cn, then
is well known in the literature as Jensen’s inequality.
The Lebesgue integral version of the Jensen inequality is given below:
Let (Ω, Λ, μ) be a measure space with 0 < μ(Ω) < ∞ and let ϕ : I → ℝ be a convex function defined on an open interval I in ℝ. If f : Ω → I is such that f, ϕ ∘ f ∈ L(Ω, Λ, μ), then
In case when ϕ is strictly convex on I one has equality in (2) if and only if f is constant almost everywhere on Ω.
The Jensen inequality for convex functions plays a crucial role in the Theory of Inequalities due to the fact that other inequalities such as the arithmetic mean-geometric mean inequality, the Hölder and Minkowski inequalities, the Ky Fan inequality etc. can be obtained as particular cases of it.
There is an extensive literature devoted to Jensen’s inequality concerning different generalizations, refinements, counterparts and converse results, see, for example [1–9].
In this paper we give a refinement of Jensen’s integral inequality and its generalization for linear functionals. We also present some applications in Information Theory for example for Kullback-Leibler, total variation and Karl Pearson χ2-divergences etc.
2 Main results
Let (Ω, Λ, μ) be a measure space with 0 < μ(Ω) < ∞ and L(Ω, Λ, μ) = {f : Ω → ℝ : f is μ measurable and ∫Ωf(t)dμ(t) < ∞} be a Lebesgue space. Consider the set 𝔖 = {ω ∈ Λ : μ(ω) ≠ 0 and μ(ω̅) = μ(Ω \ ω) ≠ 0} and ϕ : (a, b) → ℝ be a convex function defined on an open interval (a, b). If f : Ω → (a, b) is such that f, ϕ ∘ f ∈ L(Ω, Λ, μ), then for any set ω ∈ 𝔖, define the functional as
We give the following refinement of Jensen’s inequality.
Let (Ω, Λ, μ) be a measure space with 0 < μ(Ω) < ∞ and let ϕ : (a, b) → ℝ be a convex function defined on an open interval (a, b). If f : Ω → (a, b) is such that f, ϕ ∘ f ∈ L(Ω, Λ, μ), then for any setω ∈ 𝔖 we have
As for any ω ∈ 𝔖 we have
Therefore by the convexity of the function ϕ we get
Also for any ω ∈ 𝔖 and by the Jensen inequality we have
We observe that the inequality (4)can be written in an equivalent form as
and
If ∅ Ω ∈ 𝔖 and if we take ω = ∅ or ω = Ω, then we have F(ϕ, f; ω) is equal to the left hand side of (2). In this case (5) holds trivially.
Particularly Riemann integral version can be given as:
Let ϕ : [a, b] → ℝ be a convex function defined on the interval [a, b]. If f : [c, d] → [a, b], p : [c, d] → ℝ+are such that f, fp and (ϕ ∘ f) p are all integrable on [c, d], then we have
As a simple consequence of Theorem 2.1 we can obtain refinement of Hermite-Hadamard inequality:
If ϕ : [a, b] → ℝ is a convex function defined on the interval [a, b], then for any [c, d] ⊆ [a, b]we have
3 Further generalization
Let E be a nonempty set, 𝔄 be an algebra of subsets of E, and L be a linear class of real-valued functions f : E → ℝ having the properties:
L1 : f, g ∈ L ⇒ (αf + βg) ∈ L for all α, β ∈ ℝ;
L2 : 1 ∈ L, i.e., if f(t) = 1 for all t ∈ E, then f ∈ L;
L3 : f ∈ L, E1 ∈ 𝔄 ⇒ f. χE1 ∈ L,
where χE1 is the indicator function of E1. It follows from L2, L3 that χE1 ∈ L for every E1 ∈ 𝔄.
A positive isotonic linear functional A : L → ℝ is a functional satisfying the following properties:
A1 : A(αf + βg) = αA(f) + βA(g) for f, g ∈ L, α, β ∈ ℝ;
A2 : f ∈ L, f(t) ≥ 0 on E ⇒ A(f) ≥ 0;
It follows from L3 that for every E1 ∈ 𝔄 such that A(χE1) > 0, the functional AE1 is defined for a fixed positive isotonic linear functional A as
Jessen (see [10, p-47]) gave the following generalization of Jensen’s inequality for convex functions.
Let L satisfy L1and L2on a nonempty set E, and assume that ϕ : [a, b] → ℝ be a continuous convex function. If A is linear positive functional withA(1) = 1, then for all f ∈ L such that ϕ(f) ∈ L we have A(f) ∈ [a, b]and
The following refinement of (8) holds.
Under the above assumptions, if ϕ : [a, b] → ℝ is a continuous convex function, then
where
for all non empty set E1 ∈ 𝔄 such that 0 < A(χE1) < 1
Since
Using the inequality (8) we obtain
This proves the second inequality in (9).
The first inequality follows by using definition of convex function and identity (7). □
4 Applications for Csiszár divergence measures
Let (Ω, Λ, μ) be a probability measure space. Consider the set of all density functions on μ to be S ≔ {p|p : Ω → ℝ, p(s) > 0, ∫Ωp(s)dμ(s) = 1}.
Csiszár introduced the concept of f -divergence for a convex function f : (0, ∞) → (-∞, ∞) (cf. [11], see also [12]) by
By appropriately defining the convex function f, various divergences can be derived. We give some important f -divergences, playing a significant role in Information Theory and Statistics.
(i) The class of χ-divergences: The f -divergences, in this class, are generated by the family of functions
For α = 1; it gives the total variation distance.
For α = 2; it gives the Karl Pearson χ2-divergence,
(ii) α-order Renyi entropy : For α > 1 let
Then If gives α-order entropy
(iii) Harmonic distance: Let
Then If gives Harmonic distance
(iv) Kullback-Leibler: Let
Then f -divergence functional give rise to Kullback-Leibler distance [13]
One parametric generalization of the Kullback-Leibler [13] relative information was studied in a different way by Cressie and Read [14].
(v) Jeffreys divergence: Let
Then f -divergence functional give Jeffreys divergence
(vi) The Dichotomy class: This class is generated by the family of functions gα : (0, ∞) → ℝ,
This class gives, for particular values of α; some important divergences. For instance, for
There are various other divergences in Information Theory and Statistics such as Arimoto-type divergences, Matushita’s divergence, Puri-Vincze divergences etc. ( cf. [15], [16]) used in various problems in Information Theory and statistics. An application of Theorem 1.1 is the following result given by Csiszár and Korner (cf. [17]).
Let f : [0, ∞) → ℝ be a convex function and p, q be positive functions from S. Then the following inequality is valid,
Let f : [0, ∞] → ℝ be a convex function, then for any p and q in S we have:
By substituting ϕ(s) = f(s),
Let p, q ∈ S, then we have
By putting f(x) = |x - 1| for all x ≥ 0 in Theorem 4.2 we get (14). □
For any p, q ∈ S,
By making use of the function f(x) = (t - 1)2 in Theorem 4.2 we get
Since by Arithmetic-Geometric mean inequality we have
therefore
□
For any p, q ∈ S, we have:
By putting f(t) = t ln(t) in Theorem 4.2 one can get first inequality in (16).
To prove the second inequality, we utilize the inequality between the geometric mean and harmonic mean,
we have for
that
for any ω ∈ 𝔖, which implies the second inequality in (16). □
For any p, q ∈ S, we have:
By putting f(x) = (x - 1) ln(x), x > 0 in Theorem 4.2 we have
that is
proving the first inequality in (17).
Utilizing the elementary inequality for positive numbers,
we have
for each ω ∈ 𝔖, giving the second inequality in (17). □
For any p, q ∈ S, we have:
By putting f(x) = xα for α > 1, x > 0, in Theorem 4.2 we get the required inequalities. □
Acknowledgement
The authors express their sincere thanks to the referees for their careful reading of the manuscript and very helpful suggestions that improved the manuscript.
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