Invariance of Weighted Bajraktarević Mean with Respect to the Beckenbach-Gini means ()
1. Introduction
Let
be an open interval. A two-variable function
is called a mean on the interval I if
holds. If for all
, these inequalities are strict, M is called strict. Obviously, if M is a mean, then M is reflexive, i.e.,
for all
.
A quasi-arithmetic mean, generated by the function
, is defined by
for a continuous, strictly monotone function
.
A more general mean is the class of the weighted quasi-arithmetic means, which is defined by
where
is a continuous strictly monotone function, and the constant
.
A Lagrangian mean is defined by
where
is a continuous strictly monotone function.
Given the continuous functions
satisfy
for
and
is one-to-one, the Bajraktarević mean of generators
and
[1] is defined by
(1.1)
is a strict mean, and it is a generalization of quasi-arithmetic mean. Note that if
, we have
(1.2)
where the mean
is called Beckenbach-Gini mean of a generator
[2] .
Quotient mean
is defined by
(1.3)
where the functions
and
are continuous, positive, and of different type of strict monotonicity in I [3] . For
, we have
, where
is geometric mean.
Now we define the weighted Bajraktarević mean as follows:
(1.4)
where
,
are continuous, positive, and of different type of strict monotonicity and
is one-to-one. Note that if
,
. If
, the weighted Bajraktarević mean becomes quotient mean, that is
. Without any loss of generality, we can assume that
is strictly increasing and
is strictly decreasing.
Let
be means. A mean
is called invariant with respect to the mean-type mappings
, shortly,
-invariant [4] , if
The simplest example when the invariance equation holds is the well-known identity
where
denote the arithmetic, harmonic and geometric means, respectively.
The invariance of the arithmetic mean with respect to various quasi-arithmetic means has been extensively investigated. Firstly we came upon the work of Sutô [5] [6] presented in 1914, in which he gave analytic solutions for the invariance equation
(1.5)
Then Matkowski solved the above equation under assumptions that
and
are twice continuously differentiable [4] . These regularity assumptions were weaken step-by-step by Daróczy, Maksa and Páles in [7] [8] . Finally, without any regularity assumptions, the problem was solved by Daróczy and Páles in [9] .
Also, the form of Equation (1.5) was generalized by many authors. Concretely, Burai considered the invariance of the arithmetic mean with respect to weighted quasi-arithmetic means in [10] . Daróczy, Hajdu, Jarczyk and Matkowski studied the invariance equation involving three weighted quasi-arithmetic means [11] [12] [13] . Matkowski solved the invariance equation involving the arithmetic mean in class of Lagrangian mean-type mappings [14] . In [15] , Makó and Páles investigated the invariance of the arithmetic mean with respect to generalized quasi-arithmetic means. The invariance of the geometric mean in class of Lagrangian mean-type mappings has been studied by Głazowska and Matkowski in [16] . All pairs of Stolarsky’s means for which the geometric mean is invariant were determined in [17] . Zhang and Xu considered the invariance of the geometric mean with respect to generalized quasi-arithmetic means in [18] and some invariance of the quotient mean with respect to Makó-Páles means in [19] . Recently, Jarczyk provided a review on the invariance of means [20] .
Matkowski studied the invariance of the quotient mean with respect to weighted quasi-arithmetic mean type mapping [3] . He also studied the invariance of the Bajraktarević means with respect to quasi-arthmetic means in [21] and the invariance of the Bajraktarević means with respect to the Beckenbach-Gini means in [22] . Motivated by the above mentioned works, in this paper, we study the invariance of the weighted Bajraktarević mean with respect to the Beckenbach-Gini means, i.e., solve the functional equation
(1.6)
where
,
are continuous functions and
is strictly increasing,
is strictly decreasing.
2. Main Result
Lemma 1. Let
be an interval. Suppose that the function
is differentiable, then we have
(2.1)
If the function
is twice differentiable, then we have
(2.2)
Proof. By the definition of
, we have
then let
, we can get that
.
Also we have
letting
, we can get (2.2).
Lemma 2. Let
be an interval and
. Suppose that the functions
is differentiable,
strictly increasing,
strictly decreasing and
is one-to-one. If
is invariant with respect to the mean-type mapping
i.e., the Equation (1.6) holds, then there exists a positive number c such that
(2.3)
Proof. By the definition of the mean
and (1.6) we have
whence, for all
(2.4)
Differentiating the above equation with respect to x, we get that
Then, letting
, since
and Lemma 1 we obtain
(2.5)
that is,
(2.6)
Thus we can get that (2.3) holds.
Theorem 1. Let
be an interval and
. Suppose that the functions
is twice differentiable,
strictly increasing,
strictly decreasing and
is one-to-one. Then if the weighted Bajraktarević mean
is invariant with respect to the mean-type mapping
, that is (1.6) holds, then there exist
, such that
where
.
Proof. Assume that
is invariant with respect to the mean-type mapping
. Then the equality (2.4) is satisfied. Differentiating two times (2.4) with respect to x, we get
Letting
and dividing
, since Lemma 1, we get that
(2.7)
From Formula (2.5), after simple calculations, we have
Substituting them into Equation (2.7), we get that
that is
Solving this equation we obtain, for some
(2.8)
Since Lemma 2, we can get that
where
and
.
Corollary 1. Let
be an interval and
. Suppose that the functions
is twice differentiable,
strictly increasing,
strictly decreasing and
is one-to-one. Then the following conditions are equivalent:
1)
is invariant with respect to the mean-type mapping
, i.e.,
2) there exist
, such that
3) there exist
such that
for all
.
Remark 1. For the case
, since (2.5) and
is strictly increasing,
is strictly decreasing, we have
. Then the Equation (2.7) becomes
(2.9)
Then assuming
are three times differentiable, we can find the result for this case in [21] .
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