Optimal bounds for arithmetic-geometric and Toader means in terms of generalized logarithmic mean

Qing Ding1, Tiehong Zhao2

  • 1College of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha, 410205 China.

Journal of Inequalities and Applications
|May 26, 2017
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