Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 72(1) pp.87--107, 2005.

On the Ky Fan inequality and related inequalities II

Edward Neuman

József Sándor

Received: 1st March, 2005

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Abstract

Ky Fan type inequalities for means of two or more variables are obtained. Refinements and improvements of known inequalities are derived. Applications to symmetric elliptic integrals of the first and second kind are also included.

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