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A Discrete Analogue of Opial's Inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

James S. W. Wong*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton
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In a number of papers [1] - [7], successively simpler proofs were given for the following inequality of Opial [1], in case p=1.

Theorem 1. If x(t) is absolutely continuous with x(0)=0, then for any p ≧ 0,

(1)

Equality holds only if x(t) = Kt for some constant K.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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