On the Jensen functional and superquadraticity
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Abstract
In this note we give a recipe which describes upper and lower bounds for the Jensen functional under superquadraticity conditions. Some results involve the Chebychev functional. We give a more general definition of these functionals and establish analogous results.
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Jensen functional Chebychev functional superquadratic functionMathematics Subject Classification
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