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Convexity Revisited: Methods, Results, and Applications

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Differential and Integral Inequalities

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We present some new aspects involving strong convexity, the pointwise and uniform convergence on compact sets of sequences of convex functions, circular symmetric inequalities and bistochastic matrices with examples and applications, the convexity properties of the multivariate monomial, and Schur convexity.

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    Dorin Andrica

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    Themistocles M. Rassias

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Andrica, D., Rădulescu, S., Rădulescu, M. (2019). Convexity Revisited: Methods, Results, and Applications. In: Andrica, D., Rassias, T. (eds) Differential and Integral Inequalities. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27407-8_3

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