Special Topics in Majorization Theory
摘要
The primary aim of this chapter is to discuss the connection between the Hermite–Hadamard double inequality and Choquet’s theory. Noticed first by C. P. Niculescu [420], [421] (during the conference Inequalities 2001, in Timişoara), this connection led him to a partial extension of the majorization theory beyond the classical case of probability measures, using the so-called Steffensen–Popoviciu measures. Their main feature is to offer a large framework under which the Jensen–Steffensen inequality remains available. As a consequence, one obtains the extension of the left-hand side of Hermite–Hadamard inequality to a context involving signed Borel measures on arbitrary compact convex sets. A similar extension of the right-hand side of this inequality is known only in dimension 1, the higher dimensional case being still open.