Review of personal protective equipment and their associated wastes, life-cycle and effective management during the Covid-19 pandemic in developing nations

Wilson U. Eze; Toyese Oyegoke; Jonathan D. Gaiya; Reginald Umunakwe; David I. Onyemachi; Wilson U. Eze; Toyese Oyegoke; Jonathan D. Gaiya; Reginald Umunakwe; David I. Onyemachi

doi:10.3934/ctr.2022001

Clean Technologies and Recycling

2022, Volume 2, Issue 1: 1-31. doi: 10.3934/ctr.2022001

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Review of personal protective equipment and their associated wastes, life-cycle and effective management during the Covid-19 pandemic in developing nations

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Polymer Technology Department, Nigeria Institute of Leather & Science Technology Zaria, Nigeria
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Chemical Engineering Department, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
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Laboratoire de Chimie, ENS l'Universite de Lyon, Lyon, France
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Materials & Metallurgical Engineering Department, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
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Directorate of Research and Development/Department of Pollution and Environmental Technology, Nigeria Institute of Leather & Science Technology Zaria, Nigeria

Received: 03 December 2021 Accepted: 25 January 2022 Published: 09 February 2022

Plastics have become vital assets for humanity; these materials are used widely in pharmaceuticals, healthcare systems, and many other applications. The rising demand and uses of articles made wholly or partly from synthetic polymers, coupled with their non-biodegradability, contributes to the massive volume of plastic wastes across cities in most developing nations. Thistrend has become an issue of significant environmental concern. However, the fight against COVID-19 would look almost impossible without personal protective equipment (PPE) primarily made from various plastics which in turn, contribute enormously to the volume of waste streams. To circumvent this present challenge, research has been recommending solutions. The existing literature primarily focuses on the most developed countries, emphasising Asian countries with less attention to other developing countries like Nigeria and African countries. This study, therefore, reviewed the personal protective equipment used in healthcare, plastic types employed for their production, and the appropriate technology for managing their associated wastes. The application of proper disposal methods can reduce the toxic effects of discarded plastics on human health and the environment. In this review, the SWOT analysis approach was employed to unveil the benefits, limitations, opportunities, and threats associated with respective waste management approaches. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to intensifier, its adverse impacts on human health and the economy are increasing; authorities are encouraged to address waste management, including medical, household, and other hazardous waste, as an urgent and critical public service to minimize potential secondary health and environmental impacts.

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Citation: Wilson U. Eze, Toyese Oyegoke, Jonathan D. Gaiya, Reginald Umunakwe, David I. Onyemachi. Review of personal protective equipment and their associated wastes, life-cycle and effective management during the Covid-19 pandemic in developing nations[J]. Clean Technologies and Recycling, 2022, 2(1): 1-31. doi: 10.3934/ctr.2022001

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Abstract

1. Introduction

For a convex function $\sigma:\mathrm{I}\subseteq \bf{R}\to \bf{R}$ on $\mathrm{I}$ with $\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}\in \mathrm{I}$ and $\nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ , the Hermite-Hadamard inequality is defined by ^[1]:

$\begin{equation} \sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \leq \frac{1}{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}\int_{\nu_{1}}^{\nu_{2}}\sigma(\eta)d\eta \leq \frac{\sigma(\nu_{1})+\sigma(\nu_{2})}{2}. \end{equation}$

(1.1)

The Hermite-Hadamard integral inequality (1.1) is one of the most famous and commonly used inequalities. The recently published papers ^[2,3,4] are focused on extending and generalizing the convexity and Hermite-Hadamard inequality.

The situation of the fractional calculus (integrals and derivatives) has won vast popularity and significance throughout the previous five decades or so, due generally to its demonstrated applications in numerous seemingly numerous and great fields of science and engineering ^[5,6,7].

Now, we recall the definitions of Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals.

Definition 1.1 (^[5,6,7]). Let $\sigma\in L_{1}[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}].$ The Riemann-Liouville integrals $J_{\nu_{1}+}^{\vartheta }\sigma$ and $J_{\nu_{2}-}^{\vartheta }\sigma$ of order $\vartheta > 0$ with $\nu_{1}\geq 0$ are defined by

$\begin{equation} J_{\nu_{1}+}^{\vartheta }\sigma(x) = \frac{1}{\Gamma (\vartheta )}\int_{\nu_{1}}^{x}(x-\eta)^{\vartheta -1}\sigma(\eta)d\eta,\; \ \ \ \nu_{1} < x \end{equation}$

(1.2)

and

$\begin{equation} J_{\nu_{2}-}^{\vartheta }\sigma(x) = \frac{1}{\Gamma (\vartheta )}\int_{x}^{\nu_{2}}(\eta-x)^{\vartheta -1}\sigma(\eta)d\eta,\; \ \ x < \nu_{2}, \end{equation}$

(1.3)

respectively. Here $\Gamma (\vartheta)$ is the well-known Gamma function and $J_{\nu_{1}+}^{0}\sigma(x) = J_{\nu_{2}-}^{0}\sigma(x) = \sigma(x).$

With a huge application of fractional integration and Hermite-Hadamard inequality, many researchers in the field of fractional calculus extended their research to the Hermite-Hadamard inequality, including fractional integration rather than ordinary integration; for example see ^{[8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]}.

In this paper, we consider the integral inequality of Hermite-Hadamard-Mercer type that relies on the Hermite-Hadamard and Jensen-Mercer inequalities. For this purpose, we recall the Jensen-Mercer inequality: Let $0 < x_{1}\leq x_{2}\leq \cdots\leq x_{n}$ and $\mu = (\mu _{1}, \mu_{2}, \ldots, \mu _{n})$ nonnegative weights such that $\sum_{i = 1}^{n}\mu_{i} = 1$ . Then, the Jensen inequality ^[22,23] is as follows, for a convex function $\sigma$ on the interval $[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ , we have

$\begin{equation} \sigma\Bigg(\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n}\mu _{i}x_{i}\Bigg)\leq \sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n}\mu _{i}\sigma(x_{i}), \end{equation}$

(1.4)

where for all $x_{i}\in \lbrack \nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ and $\mu_{i}\in \lbrack 0, 1]$ , $(i = \overline{1, n})$ .

Theorem 1.1 (^[2,23]). If $\sigma$ is convex function on $[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ , then

$\begin{equation} \sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\sum\limits^{n}_{i = 1}\mu_{i}x_{i}\right)\leq \sigma(\nu_{1})+\sigma(\nu_{2})-\sum\limits^{n}_{i = 1}\mu_{i}\sigma(x_{i}), \end{equation}$

(1.5)

for each $x_{i}\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ and $\mu_{i}\in[0, 1]$ , $(i = \overline{1, n})$ with $\sum^{n}_{i = 1}\mu_{i} = 1$ . For some results related with Jensen-Mercer inequality, see ^[24,25,26].

In view of above indices, we establish new integral inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard-Mercer type for convex functions via the Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals in the current project. Particularly, we see that our results can cover the previous researches.

2. Main results

Theorem 2.1. For a convex function $\sigma:[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]\subseteq \bf{R} \to\bf{R}$ with $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ , we have:

$\begin{multline} \sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\leq \frac{2^{\vartheta -1} \Gamma\left(\vartheta +1\right)}{\left( y-x\right)^{\vartheta}} \Biggl[ J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \\ +\; J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right)-}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\Biggr] \leq \sigma\left(\nu_{1}\right)+\sigma\left(\nu_{2}\right)-\frac{\sigma\left(x\right)+\sigma\left(y\right)}{2}. \end{multline}$

(2.1)

Proof. By using the convexity of $\sigma$ , we have

$\begin{equation} \sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{u+v}{2}\right) \leq \frac{1}{2}\left[ \sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-u\right) +\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-v\right) \right], \end{equation}$

(2.2)

and above with $u = \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y$ , $v = \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y$ , where $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ and $\eta\in [0, 1]$ , leads to

$\begin{multline} \sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\leq\frac{1}{2} \Biggl[\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right) \\ +\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\Biggr]. \end{multline}$

(2.3)

Multiplying both sides of (2.3) by $\eta^{\vartheta -1}$ and then integrating with respect to $\eta$ over $[0, 1]$ , we get

$\begin{align*} \frac{1}{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) &\leq \frac{1}{2}\left[\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta-1} \sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right)d\eta\right. \\ &+\left. \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta -1}\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)d\eta\right] \\ & = \frac{1}{2}\left[ \frac{2^{\vartheta }}{\left( y-x\right) ^{\vartheta }}\int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}} \left( \left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)-w\right) ^{\vartheta -1}\sigma\left( w\right) dw\right. \\ &\left. +\frac{2^{\vartheta}}{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta}}\int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x} \left( w-\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right) ^{\vartheta-1}\sigma\left( w\right) dw\right] \\ & = \frac{2^{\vartheta-1}\Gamma \left(\vartheta\right)}{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) +\; J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right)-}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right], \end{align*}$

and thus the proof of first inequality in (2.1) is completed.

On the other hand, we have by using the Jensen-Mercer inequality:

$\begin{eqnarray} \sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right) \right) &\leq &\sigma\left( \nu_{1}\right) +\sigma\left( \nu_{2}\right) -\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}\sigma\left( x\right) +\frac{1+\eta}{2}\sigma\left( y\right) \right) \end{eqnarray}$

(2.4)

$\begin{eqnarray} \sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right) \right) &\leq &\sigma\left( \nu_{1}\right) +\sigma\left( \nu_{2}\right) -\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}\sigma\left( x\right) +\frac{1-\eta}{2}\sigma\left( y\right) \right). \end{eqnarray}$

(2.5)

Adding inequalities (2.4) and (2.5) to get

$\begin{multline} \sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right) \right) +\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right) \right) \\ \leq 2\left[\sigma\left(\nu_{1}\right)+\sigma\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right]-\left[\sigma\left(x\right)+\sigma\left(y\right)\right]. \end{multline}$

(2.6)

Multiplying both sides of (2.6) by $\eta^{\vartheta -1}$ and then integrating with respect to $\eta$ over $[0, 1]$ to obtain

$\begin{multline*} \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta -1}\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right) \right)d\eta +\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta-1}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)d\eta \\ \leq \frac{2}{\vartheta}\left[\sigma\left(\nu_{1}\right)+\sigma\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right] -\frac{1}{\vartheta }\left[ \sigma\left( x\right) +\sigma\left( y\right) \right]. \end{multline*}$

By making use of change of variables and then multiplying by $\frac{\vartheta }{2}$ , we get the second inequality in (2.1).

Remark 2.1. If we choose $\vartheta = 1$ , $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ in Theorem 2.1, then the inequality (2.1) reduces to (1.1).

Corollary 2.1. Theorem 2.1 with

● $\vartheta = 1$ becomes [24, Theorem 2.1].

● $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{align*} \sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)\leq\frac{2^{\vartheta-1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[J_{\nu_{1}+}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)+\; J_{\nu_{2}-}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)\right] \leq \frac{\sigma\left(\nu_{1}\right)+\sigma\left(\nu_{2}\right) }{2}, \end{align*}$

which is obtained by Mohammed and Brevik in ^[10].

The following Lemma linked with the left inequality of (2.1) is useful to obtain our next results.

Lemma 2.1. Let $\sigma:[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]\subseteq\bf{R} \to\bf{R}$ be a differentiable function on $(\nu_{1}, \nu_{2})$ and $\sigma'\in L[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ with $\nu_{1}\leq \nu_{2}$ and $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ . Then, we have:

$\begin{multline} \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left( y-x\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right) +}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right)-}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\right] \\ -\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) = \frac{\left(y-x\right)}{4}\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta} \Bigl[\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right) \\ -\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\Bigr]d\eta. \end{multline}$

(2.7)

Proof. From right hand side of (2.7), we set

$\begin{align} \varpi_{1}-\varpi_{2}&:= \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta}\left[\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2} -\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right) -\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\right]d\eta \\ & = \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right)d\eta \\ &-\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta}\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right) d\eta. \end{align}$

(2.8)

By integrating by parts with $w = \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)$ , we can deduce:

$\begin{align*} \varpi_{1}& = -\frac{2}{\left( y-x\right) }\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+\frac{2\vartheta }{\left(y-x\right)} \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta -1}\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right) \right) d\eta \\ & = -\frac{2}{\left(y-x\right)}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+\frac{2^{\vartheta+1}\vartheta}{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta+1}} \int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}}\sigma\left(\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)-w\right)^{\vartheta -1} \sigma\left(w\right) dw \\ & = -\frac{2}{\left(y-x\right)}\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right) +\frac{2^{\vartheta+1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left( y-x\right) ^{\vartheta +1}} J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right). \end{align*}$

Similarly, we can deduce:

$\begin{equation*} \varpi_{2} = \frac{2}{y-x}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -\frac{2^{\vartheta+1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left( y-x\right) ^{\vartheta +1}} J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right)-}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right). \end{equation*}$

By substituting $\varpi_{1}$ and $\varpi_{2}$ in (2.8) and then multiplying by $\frac{\left(y-x\right)}{4}$ , we obtain required identity (2.7).

Corollary 2.2. Lemma 2.1 with

● $\vartheta = 1$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \frac{1}{y-x}\int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x}\sigma\left(w\right) dw-\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) = \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4}\int_{0}^{1}\eta\left[ \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right) \right) \right. \\ \left. -\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right) \right] d\eta. \end{multline*}$

● $\vartheta = 1$ , $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \frac{1}{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}\int_{\nu_{1}}^{\nu_{2}}\sigma\left( w\right) dw-\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) = \frac{\left( \nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right) }{4}\int_{0}^{1}\eta \left[ \sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}\nu_{1}+\frac{1+\eta}{2}\nu_{2}\right) \right) \right. \\ \left. -\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}\nu_{1}+\frac{1-\eta}{2}\nu_{2}\right)\right) \right] d\eta. \end{multline*}$

● $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left( \nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right)^{\vartheta }} \left[ J_{\nu_{1}+}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) +\; J_{\nu_{2}-}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \right]-\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \\ = \frac{\left( \nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right) }{4}\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta } \left[\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}\nu_{1}+\frac{1+\eta}{2}\nu_{2}\right) \right) \right. \left. -\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}\nu_{1}+\frac{1-\eta}{2}\nu_{2}\right) \right) \right] d\eta. \end{multline*}$

Theorem 2.2. Let $\sigma:[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]\subseteq\bf{R}\to\bf{R}$ be a differentiable function on $(\nu_{1}, \nu_{2})$ and $|\sigma'|$ is convex on $[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ with $\nu_{1}\leq \nu_{2}$ and $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ . Then, we have:

$\begin{multline} \Biggl| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left(y-x\right) ^{\vartheta }} \Biggl[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right) +}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \Biggr] \\ -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\Biggr| \leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{2\left( 1+\vartheta \right) }\left[ \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right| +\left| \sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right) \right| -\frac{\left| \sigma'\left( x\right) \right| +\left| \sigma'\left( y\right) \right| }{2}\right]. \end{multline}$

(2.9)

Proof. By taking modulus of identity (2.7), we get

$\begin{multline*} \Biggl|\frac{2^{\vartheta-1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] \\ -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \Biggr|\leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4} \left[\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right) \right) \right| d\eta\right. \\ \left. +\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right) \right) \right| d\eta\right]. \end{multline*}$

Then, by applying the convexity of $|\sigma'|$ and the Jensen-Mercer inequality on above inequality, we get

$\begin{align*} &\Biggl|\frac{2^{\vartheta-1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] \\ &-\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \Biggr|\leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4}\left[ \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\left[ \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right| +\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right| -\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}\left| \sigma^{\prime }\left( x\right) \right| +\frac{1-\eta}{2}\right) \left| \sigma'\left( y\right) \right| \right] d\eta\right. \\ &\left. +\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\left[ \left| \sigma'\left(\nu_{1}\right) \right| +\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right| -\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}\left|\sigma'\left(x\right) \right| +\frac{1+\eta}{2}\right)\left| \sigma'\left( y\right)\right| \right] d\eta\right] \\ & = \frac{\left(y-x\right)}{2\left(1+\vartheta \right)}\left[ \left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right)\right| +\left|\sigma'(\nu_{2})\right|-\frac{\left|\sigma'\left(x\right)\right|+\left|\sigma'\left(y\right)\right|}{2}\right], \end{align*}$

which completes the proof of Theorem 2.2.

Corollary 2.3. Theorem 2.2 with

● $\vartheta = 1$ becomes:

$\begin{align*} \left|\frac{1}{y-x}\int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x}\sigma(w)dw-\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\right| \leq \frac{\left(y-x\right)}{4}\left[\left| \sigma'\left(\nu_{1}\right)\right|+\left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right| -\frac{\left|\sigma'\left(x\right)\right|+\left|\sigma'\left(y\right)\right|}{2}\right]. \end{align*}$

● $\vartheta = 1$ , $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes [27, Theorem 2.2].

● $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{align*} \left\vert \frac{1}{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}\int_{\nu_{1}}^{\nu_{2}}\sigma\left( w\right) dw-\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \right\vert \leq \frac{\left( \nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right) }{4}\left[ \frac{\left\vert \sigma^{\prime }\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right\vert +\left\vert \sigma^{\prime }\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right\vert }{2}\right] . \end{align*}$

Theorem 2.3. Let $\sigma:[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]\subseteq\bf{R}\to\bf{R}$ be a differentiable function on $(\nu_{1}, \nu_{2})$ and $\left| \sigma'\right|^{q}, q > 1$ is convex on $[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ with $\nu_{1}\leq \nu_{2}$ and $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ . Then, we have:

$\begin{multline} \left| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left( y-x\right) ^{\vartheta }}\left[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right) +}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}- \frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right. \right. \\ \left. \left. +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ \leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4\sqrt[p]{\vartheta p+1}} \left[ \left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q}+\left| \sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right| ^{q} -\left(\frac{\left|\sigma'(x) \right|^{q}+3\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{4}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ \left. +\left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q} -\left(\frac{3\left|\sigma'(x)\right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{4}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right], \end{multline}$

(2.10)

where $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q} = 1$ .

Proof. By taking modulus of identity (2.7) and using Hölder's inequality, we get

$\begin{multline*} \left| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta }} \left[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right. \right. \\ \left. \left. +\; J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right)-}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ \leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4}\left( \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta p}\right)^{\frac{1}{p}} \left\{\left(\int_{0}^{1} \left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\right|^{q}d\eta\right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ \left. +\left(\int_{0}^{1} \left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\right|^{q}d\eta\right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right\}. \end{multline*}$

Then, by applying the Jensen-Mercer inequality with the convexity of $\left|\sigma'\right|^{q}$ , we can deduce

$\begin{align*} &\left| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left(y-x\right) ^{\vartheta }} \left[J_{\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right. \right. \\ &\left. \left. +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ &\leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4}\left( \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta p}\right)^{\frac{1}{p}} \left\{ \left( \int_{0}^{1}\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right)\right| ^{q}+\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right|^{q} -\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}\left|\sigma'(x)\right|^{q}+\frac{1+\eta}{2}\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ &\left. +\left( \int_{0}^{1}\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right)\right| ^{q}+\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right|^{q} -\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}\left| \sigma'\left( x\right)\right|^{q}+\frac{1-\eta}{2}\left| \sigma'\left( y\right) \right|^{q} \right) \right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right\} \\ & = \frac{\left(y-x\right)}{4\sqrt[p]{\vartheta p+1}}\left[\left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right| ^{q} +\left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right| ^{q}-\left( \frac{\left|\sigma'\left( x\right) \right|^{q} +3\left| \sigma'\left(y\right) \right|^{q} }{4}\right) \right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ &\left. +\left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q}+\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right| ^{q} -\left(\frac{3\left|\sigma'(x)\right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{4}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right], \end{align*}$

which completes the proof of Theorem 2.3.

Corollary 2.4. Theorem 2.3 with

● $\vartheta = 1$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \left|\frac{1}{y-x}\int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x}\sigma\left(w\right)dw -\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\right| \\ \leq \frac{\left( y-x\right)}{4\sqrt[p]{p+1}}\left[\left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q} +\left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right| ^{q}-\left( \frac{\left|\sigma'\left( x\right) \right|^{q} +3\left|\sigma'\left(y\right) \right|^{q}}{4}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ \left. +\left(\left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right)\right|^{q}+\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q} -\left(\frac{3\left|\sigma'(x)\right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q} }{4}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right]. \end{multline*}$

● $\vartheta = 1$ , $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{align*} &&\left\vert \frac{1}{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}\int_{\nu_{1}}^{\nu_{2}}\sigma\left( w\right) dw-\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \right\vert \leq \frac{\left( \nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right) }{2^{\frac{2}{p}}}\left(\frac{1}{p+1}\right)^{\frac{1}{p}}\left[ \left\vert \sigma^{\prime }\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right\vert +\left\vert \sigma^{\prime }\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right\vert \right] . \end{align*}$

● $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{align*} &\left\vert \frac{2^{\vartheta-1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[ J_{\nu_{1}+}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \right. \right. \left. \left. +\; J_{\nu_{2}-}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \right] -\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right) \right\vert \\ &\leq \frac{2^{\vartheta-1-\frac{2}{q}}}{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}\left(\frac{1}{p+1}\right)^{\frac{1}{p}}\left[ \left\vert \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right\vert +\left\vert \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right\vert \right]. \end{align*}$

Theorem 2.4. Let $\sigma:[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]\subseteq\bf{R}\to\bf{R}$ be a differentiable function on $(\nu_{1}, \nu_{2})$ and $\left|\sigma'\right|^{q}, q\geq 1$ is convex on $[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ with $\nu_{1}\leq \nu_{2}$ and $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ . Then, we have:

$\begin{multline} \left| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left(y-x\right) ^{\vartheta }} \left[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right) +}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\right.\right. \\ \left. \left. +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ \leq \frac{\left(y-x\right)}{4\left(\vartheta+1\right)}\left[\left(\left|\sigma'(\nu_{1})\right|^{q} +\left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q}-\left( \frac{\left| \sigma'\left(x\right)\right|^{q} +\left( 2\vartheta+3\right)\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{2\left(\vartheta+2\right) }\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ \left. +\left( \left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}\right)\right|^{q}+\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q} -\left(\frac{\left(2\vartheta+3\right)\left|\sigma'(x)\right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{2\left( \vartheta+2\right) }\right) \right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right]. \end{multline}$

(2.11)

Proof. By taking modulus of identity (2.7) with the well-known power mean inequality, we can deduce

$\begin{multline*} \left| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left(y-x\right) ^{\vartheta }} \left[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right) +}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right. \right. \\ \left. \left. +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right] -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ \leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4}\left( \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\right) ^{1-\frac{1}{q}} \left\{\left(\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta} \left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1-\eta}{2}x+\frac{1+\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\right|^{q}d\eta\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ \left. +\left( \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta } \left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\left(\frac{1+\eta}{2}x+\frac{1-\eta}{2}y\right)\right)\right|^{q}d\eta\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right\} . \end{multline*}$

By applying the Jensen-Mercer inequality with the convexity of $\left|\sigma'\right|^{q}$ , we can deduce

$\begin{align*} &\left| \frac{2^{\vartheta -1}\Gamma \left( \vartheta +1\right) }{\left(y-x\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[ J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y\right)+}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right. \right. \\ &\left. \left. +\; J_{\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right)\right] -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ &\leq \frac{\left( y-x\right)}{4}\left(\int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\right)^{1-\frac{1}{q}} \left\{ \left( \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\left[ \left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q} +\left| \sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right) \right| ^{q}-\left( \frac{1-\eta}{2}\left| \sigma'\left(x\right)\right|^{q} +\frac{1+\eta}{2}\left| \sigma'\left( y\right)\right| ^{q}\right) \right] \right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ &\left. +\left( \int_{0}^{1}\eta^{\vartheta }\left[ \left| \sigma'\left(\nu_{1}\right)\right|^{q} +\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right|^{q}-\left( \frac{1+\eta}{2}\left| \sigma'\left( x\right) \right|^{q} +\frac{1-\eta}{2}\left| \sigma'\left( y\right) \right|^{q}\right) \right] \right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right\} \\ & = \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{4\left( \vartheta +1\right) }\left[\left(\left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}\right)\right|^{q} +\left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right) \right| ^{q}-\left( \frac{\left| \sigma'\left(x\right) \right|^{q} +\left(2\vartheta +3\right)\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{2\left(\vartheta+2\right)}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ &\left. +\left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q} -\left( \frac{\left( 2\vartheta +3\right) \left| \sigma'\left( x\right) \right|^{q} +\left|\sigma'\left( y\right)\right|^{q}}{2\left(\vartheta+2\right)}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right], \end{align*}$

which completes the proof of Theorem 2.4.

Corollary 5. Theorem 2.4 with

● $q = 1$ becomes Theorem 2.2.

● $\vartheta = 1$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \left| \frac{1}{y-x}\int_{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y}^{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x}\sigma\left(w\right) dw -\sigma\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-\frac{x+y}{2}\right) \right| \\ \leq \frac{\left( y-x\right) }{8}\left[ \left( \left|\sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right)\right|^{q} +\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q}-\left( \frac{\left| \sigma'\left( x\right)\right|^{q} +5\left|\sigma'\left(y\right)\right|^{q}}{6}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right. \\ \left. +\left( \left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{1}\right) \right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{2}\right)\right|^{q} -\left(\frac{5\left|\sigma'(x)\right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'(y)\right|^{q}}{6}\right)\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right]. \end{multline*}$

● $\vartheta = 1$ , $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \left| \frac{1}{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}\int_{\nu_{1}}^{\nu_{2}}\sigma\left( w\right) dw -\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)\right| \\ \leq \frac{\left(y-x\right)}{8}\left[\left(\frac{5\left|\sigma'\left(\nu_{1}\right)\right|^{q} +\left| \sigma'\left( \nu_{2}\right)\right| ^{q}}{6}\right)^{\frac{1}{q}} +\left(\frac{\left|\sigma'(\nu_{1})\right|^{q}+5\left| \sigma'(\nu_{2})\right|^{q}}{6}\right)^{\frac{1}{q}}\right]. \end{multline*}$

● $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ becomes:

$\begin{multline*} \left| \frac{2^{\vartheta-1}\Gamma\left(\vartheta+1\right)}{\left(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right)^{\vartheta}} \left[J_{\nu_{1} +}^{\vartheta}\sigma\left(\frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)+\; J_{\nu_{2} -}^{\vartheta }\sigma\left( \frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)\right] -\sigma\left( \frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}\right)\right| \\ \leq \frac{\left(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}\right)}{4\left(\vartheta+1\right)} \left[\left(\frac{\left(2\vartheta+3\right)\left|\sigma'(\nu_{1})\right|^{q}+\left|\sigma'(\nu_{2})\right|^{q}}{2\left(\vartheta+2\right)}\right)^{\frac{1}{q}} +\left(\frac{\left|\sigma'(\nu_{1})\right|^{q}+\left(2\vartheta+3\right)\left|\sigma'(\nu_{2})\right|^{q}}{2\left(\vartheta+2\right)}\right) ^{\frac{1}{q}}\right]. \end{multline*}$

3. Applications to special means

Here, we consider the following special means:

● The arithmetic mean:

$\mathcal{A}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) = \frac{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}{2}, \quad \nu_{1}, \nu_{2}\geq 0.$

● The harmonic mean:

$\mathcal{H}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) = \frac{2\nu_{1}\nu_{2}}{\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}}, \quad \nu_{1}, \nu_{2} > 0.$

● The logarithmic mean:

$\begin{equation*} \mathcal{L}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) = \begin{cases} \frac{\nu_{2}-\nu_{1}}{\ln \nu_{2}-\ln \nu_{1}}, & \text{if}\; \nu_{1}\neq \nu_{2}, \\ \nu_{1}, & \text{if}\; \nu_{1} = \nu_{2}, \end{cases} \quad \nu_{1}, \nu_{2} > 0. \end{equation*}$

● The generalized logarithmic mean:

$\begin{equation*} \mathcal{L}_{n}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) = \begin{cases} \left[\frac{\nu_{2}^{n+1}-\nu_{1}^{n+1}}{\left(n+1\right)(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1})}\right]^{\frac{1}{n}}, & \text{if}\; \nu_{1}\neq \nu_{2} \\ \nu_{1}, & \text{if}\; \nu_{1} = \nu_{2}, \end{cases} \quad \nu_{1},\nu_{2} > 0;\; n\in\bf{Z}\setminus \{-1,0\}. \end{equation*}$

Proposition 3.1. Let $0 < \nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ and $n\in\bf{N}$ , $n \geq 2$ . Then, for all $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ , we have:

(3.1)

Proof. By applying Corollary 2.3 (first item) for the convex function $\sigma(x) = x^{n}, \, x > 0$ , one can obtain the result directly.

Proposition 3.2. Let $0 < \nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ . Then, for all $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ , we have:

(3.2)

Proof. By applying Corollary 2.3 (first item) for the convex function $\sigma(x) = \frac{1}{x}, \, x > 0$ , one can obtain the result directly.

Proposition 3.3. Let $0 < \nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ and $n\in\bf{N}$ , $n \geq 2$ . Then, we have:

$\begin{equation} \left| \mathcal{L}_{n}^{n}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) -\mathcal{A}^{n}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) \right| \leq \frac{n(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1})}{4} \left[ \mathcal{A}\left(\nu_{1}^{n-1}, \nu_{2}^{n-1}\right) \right], \end{equation}$

(3.3)

and

$\begin{equation} \left| \mathcal{L}^{-1}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) -\mathcal{A}^{-1}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) \right| \leq \frac{(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1})}{4}\mathcal{H}^{-1}\left( \nu_{1}^{2},\nu_{2}^{2}\right) . \end{equation}$

(3.4)

Proof. By setting $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ in results of Proposition 3.1 and Proposition 3.2, one can obtain the Proposition 3.3.

Proposition 3.4. Let $0 < \nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ and $n\in\bf{N}$ , $n \geq 2$ . Then, for $q > 1, \, \frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q} = 1$ and for all $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}],$ we have:

$\begin{multline} \left| \mathcal{L}_{n}^{n}\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y,\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -\left( 2\mathcal{A}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) -\mathcal{A}\left( x,y\right) \right) ^{n}\right| \\ \leq \frac{n(y-x)}{4\sqrt[p]{p+1}}\Bigg\{\left[ 2\mathcal{A}\left( \nu_{1}^{q(n-1)}, \nu_{2}^{q(n-1)}\right) -\frac{1}{2}\mathcal{A}\left(x^{q(n-1)}, 3y^{q(n-1)}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ +\left[ 2\mathcal{A}\left( \nu_{1}^{q(n-1)}, \nu_{2}^{q(n-1)}\right) -\frac{1}{2}\mathcal{A}\left(3x^{q(n-1)}, y^{q(n-1)}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}}\Bigg\}. \end{multline}$

(3.5)

Proof. By applying Corollary 2.4 (first item) for convex function $\sigma\left(x\right) = x^{n}, \, x > 0$ , one can obtain the result directly.

Proposition 3.5. Let $0 < \nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ . Then, for $q > 1, \, \frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q} = 1$ and for all $x, y\in[\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}]$ , we have:

$\begin{multline} \left| \mathcal{L}^{-1}\left( \nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-y,\nu_{1}+\nu_{2}-x\right) -\left( 2\mathcal{A}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) -\mathcal{A}\left(x,y\right)\right)^{-1}\right| \\ \leq \frac{\sqrt[q]{2}(y-x)}{4\sqrt[p]{p+1}}\Bigg\{\left[ \mathcal{H}^{-1}\left(\nu_{1}^{2q},\nu_{2}^{2q}\right) -\frac{3}{4}\mathcal{H}^{-1}\left(x^{2q}, 3y^{2q}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ +\left[\mathcal{H}^{-1}\left(\nu_{1}^{2q},\nu_{2}^{2q}\right) -\frac{3}{4}\mathcal{H}^{-1}\left(3x^{2q}, y^{2q}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}}\Bigg\}. \end{multline}$

(3.6)

Proof. By applying Corollary 2.4 (first item) for the convex function $\sigma\left(x\right) = \frac{1}{x}, \, x > 0$ , one can obtain the result directly.

Proposition 3.6. Let $0 < \nu_{1} < \nu_{2}$ and $n\in\bf{N}$ , $n \geq 2$ . Then, for $q > 1$ and $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q} = 1$ , we have:

$\begin{multline} \left| \mathcal{L}_{n}^{n}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) -\mathcal{A}^{n}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) \right| \leq \frac{n(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1})}{4\sqrt[p]{p+1}} \Bigg\{\left[ 2\mathcal{A}\left( \nu_{1}^{q(n-1)}, \nu_{2}^{q(n-1)}\right) -\frac{1}{2}\mathcal{A}\left( \nu_{1}^{q(n-1)}, 3\nu_{2}^{q(n-1)}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ +\left[ 2\mathcal{A}\left( \nu_{1}^{q(n-1)}, \nu_{2}^{q(n-1)}\right) -\frac{1}{2}\mathcal{A}\left(3\nu_{1}^{q(n-1)}, \nu_{2}^{q(n-1)}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}}\Bigg\}, \end{multline}$

(3.7)

and

$\begin{multline} \left| \mathcal{L}^{-1}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) -\mathcal{A}^{-1}(\nu_{1},\nu_{2}) \right| \leq \frac{\sqrt[q]{2}(\nu_{2}-\nu_{1})}{4\sqrt[p]{p+1}} \Bigg\{\left[ \mathcal{H}^{-1}\left( \nu_{1}^{2q}, \nu_{2}^{2q}\right) -\frac{3}{4}\mathcal{H}^{-1}\left(\nu_{1}^{2q}, 3\nu_{2}^{2q}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}} \\ +\left[ \mathcal{H}^{-1}\left( \nu_{1}^{2q}, \nu_{2}^{2q}\right) -\frac{3}{4}\mathcal{H}^{-1}\left(3\nu_{1}^{2q}, \nu_{2}^{2q}\right) \right]^{\frac{1}{q}}\Bigg\}. \end{multline}$

(3.8)

Proof. By setting $x = \nu_{1}$ and $y = \nu_{2}$ in results of Proposition 3.4 and Proposition 3.5, one can obtain the Proposition 3.6.

4. Conclusions

As we emphasized in the introduction, integral inequality is the most important field of mathematical analysis and fractional calculus. By using the well-known Jensen-Mercer and power mean inequalities, we have proved new inequalities of Hermite-Hadamard-Mercer type involving Riemann-Liouville fractional operators. In the last section, we have considered some propositions in the context of special functions; these confirm the efficiency of our results.

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our special thanks to the editor and referees. Also, the first author would like to thank Prince Sultan University for funding this work through research group Nonlinear Analysis Methods in Applied Mathematics (NAMAM) group number RG-DES-2017-01-17.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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