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2 Preliminaries
The readers are referred to Tariboon and Ntouyas (2013), Sudsutad et al. (2015), Kac and Cheung (2002) and Ernst (2012) for some q-calculus essentials and inequalities over finite intervals.
We will also use the following definite q-integrals to prove our results.
Lemma 1
Let
, the following hold
and
In what follows we introduce q-partial derivatives and definite q-integrals for functions of two variables.
Definition 1
Let
be a continuous function of two variables and
, the partial
-derivatives,
-derivatives and
-derivatives at
can be defined as follows
and
The function
is said to be partially
-,
- and
-differentiable on
if
and
exist for all
. We can similarly define higher order partial derivatives.
Definition 2
Suppose that
is a continuous function. Then the definite
-integral on
is defined by
(2.1)
for
. It is clear from (2.1) that
If
, then
(2.2)
From (2.2), we also note that
The following theorems hold for definite
-double integrals.
Theorem 1
Let
be a continuous function. Then
,
.
Proof
By Definition 2 and the definition of partial
-derivatives, we have
By the definition of partial
-derivatives and Definition 2, we have
Using (2.2) and applying the result (2), we obtain
Theorem 2
Suppose that
are continuous functions,
. Then, for
,
.
.
The following integration by parts formula for iterated
-double integrals holds:
Proof
The proof of (1) and (2) follows by definition of definite
-double integrals. (3) By applying (3) of Theorem 3.3 (Tariboon and Ntouyas, 2013), we have
which is the expected result. □
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3 Main results
Before we proceed to prove the main results of this section, we refer the readers to Dragomir (2001), Latif and Alomari (2009) and Özdemir et al. (2012) to study the basic properties of convex and quasi-convex functions on the co-ordinates on
. In this section, we first prove Hermite–Hadamard type inequality for functions of two variable which are convex on the co-ordinates on
.
Theorem 3
Let
be convex on co-ordinates on
, the following inequalities holds
Proof
Since
is convex on co-ordinates on
, we have
The
-integration with respect to t over
,
-integration with respect to y over
on both sides of the above inequality and by the change of variables, give
(3.1)
Now
The
-integration with respect to x over
,
-integration with respect to s over
on both sides of the above inequality and by the change of variables, give
(3.2)
Adding (3.1) and (3.2) and dividing both sides by 2, we get
(3.3)
Consider now
The
-integration with respect to s over
, yields
(3.4)
Similarly
(3.5)
Addition of (3.4) and (3.5), gives
(3.6)
We also observe that
(3.7)
and
(3.8)
Adding (3.7) and (3.8) and multiplying the resulting inequality by
, we get
(3.9)
Lastly, we have
(3.10)
We need the following results to prove our main results.
Theorem 4
Theorem 4 Hölder inequality for double sums
Suppose
with
or
and
, the following Hölder inequality for double sums holds
where all the sums are assumed to be finite.
Theorem 5
Theorem 5
-Hölder inequality for functions of two variables
Let f and g be functions defined on
and
. If
with
, the following
-Hölder inequality holds
(3.11)
Proof
By the definition of
-integral and applying Theorem 4, we have
Lemma 2
Let
be a twice partially
-differentiable function on
for
. If partial
-derivative
is continuous and integrable on
, then the following equality holds
(3.12)
Proof
By the definition of partial
-derivatives and definite
-integrals, we have
(3.13)
We observe that
(3.14)
(3.15)
(3.16)
(3.17)
(3.18)
(3.19)
(3.20)
(3.21)
(3.22)
(3.23)
(3.24)
(3.25)
and
(3.26)
Using (3.14)–(3.26) in (3.13) and simplifying, we get
(3.27)
Multiplying both sides of (3.27) by
, we get the desired equality. □
Remark 3
As
and
,
, where
and hence the result of Lemma 2 becomes the result of Lemma 1 proved in Sarikaya et al. (2012, page 139).
Now, we can present some integral inequalities for functions whose partial
-derivatives satisfy the assumptions of convexity on co-ordinates on
.
Theorem 6
Let
be a twice partially
-differentiable function on
with
and
. If partial
-derivative
is continuous and integrable on
and
is convex on co-ordinates on
for
, then the following inequality holds
(3.28)
Proof
Taking the absolute value on both sides of the equality of Lemma 2, using the
-Hölder inequality for functions of two variables and convexity of
on co-ordinates on
, we have
(3.29)
From Lemma 1, we observe that
and
Using the values of the above
-integrals, we get the required inequality. □
Theorem 7
Let
be a twice partially
-differentiable function on
with
and
. If partial
-derivative
is continuous and integrable on
and
is convex on co-ordinates on
for
, then the following inequality holds
(3.30)
where
.
Proof
Taking the absolute value on both sides of the equality of Lemma 2, using the
-Hölder inequality for functions of two variables and convexity of
on co-ordinates on
, we have
(3.31)
We observe that
(3.32)
Consider the first
-integral from (3.32) and making use of the substitution
, we obtain
(3.33)
Consider the second
-integral from (3.32) and making use of the substitution
, we get
(3.34)
Substitution of (3.33) and (3.34) in (3.32) gives
(3.35)
Similarly, one can have
(3.36)
Finally, we also have
Remark 5
When
and
in Theorem 7, we get the following inequality proved in Sarikaya et al. (2012, page 144).
(3.37)
Indeed, the inequality (3.37) follows by applying L’Hospital rule to the limits
The next two results are for quasi-convex functions on co-ordinates on
.
Theorem 8
Let
be a twice partially
-differentiable function on
with
and
. If partial
-derivative
is continuous and integrable on
and
is quasi-convex on co-ordinates on
for
, then the following inequality holds
(3.38)
Proof
Lemma 2, an application of the
-Hölder inequality and quasi-convexity of
on
, yield
(3.39)
Now using the properties of supremum and Lemma 1, we get the required result from (3.39). □
Theorem 9
Let
be a twice partially
-differentiable function on
with
and
. If partial
-derivative
is continuous and integrable on
and
is convex on co-ordinates on
for
, then the following inequality holds
(3.40)
Proof
With the similar reasoning as in proving (3.38), we notice that
(3.41)
Using the properties of the supremum, the quasi-convexity of
on
, (3.35) and (3.36), we get (3.40). □
Remark 6
As
and
in Theorems 8 and 9, we get the corresponding results of classical calculus of functions of two variables.