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On Carleman’s Inequality
Xiaojing Yang
Submitted by A. M. Fink
In this paper the result of P. Yan and G. Sun Ž1999, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 240,
290᎐293. is generalized and a conjecture is proposed. 䊚 2001 Academic Press
Key Words: Carleman’s inequality.
⬁ 1 1 1
-e 1y y y
Ý
ns1
ž 2 Ž n q 1. 24 Ž n q 1 .
2
48 Ž n q 1 .
3 / an . Ž 3.
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692 NOTE
s Ý ž 1q / ak .
ks1 k
By Lemma 1, we have
⬁
1rn
Ý Ž a1 a2 ⭈⭈⭈ a n .
ns1
⬁ 1 1 1
-e 1y y y
Ý
ns1
ž 2 Ž n q 1. 24 Ž n q 1 .
2
48 Ž n q 1 .
3 / an .
y1 r2
1
- 1q for n s 1, 2, . . . .
ž n q 1r5 / ,
11 y1945
y 5
y 6
.
1280 Ž 1 q x . 580608 Ž 1 q x .
Therefore, Theorem 1 can also be further refined. The proof of the above
inequality is similar to the proof of Lemma 1, but it is considerably longer
and complicated.
Conjecture. Let x ) 0. Then the following equality holds
x ⬁
1 ak
ž 1q / se 1y Ý k
,
x ks1 Ž1 q x.
where a1 s 12 , a2 s 1
24 , a3 s 1
48 , a4 s 73
5670 , a5 s 11
1280 , a6 s 1945
580608 .
Conjecture. Is a k ) 0 for k G 7?
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author thanks the referee for his valuable comments and suggestions.
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Ž1999., 290᎐293.
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Carleman’s inequality, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 223 Ž1998., 347᎐353.
3. G. H. Hardy, J. E. Littlewood, and G. Polya, ‘‘Inequalities,’’ Cambridge Univ. Press,
London, 1952.