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Inequalities for symmetric means, symmetric harmonic means, and their applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Hsu-Tung Ku
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of Massachusetts at AmherstAmherst, MA 01003United States of America, e-mail: hku@math.umass.edu, meiku@math.umass.edu
Mei-Chin Ku
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of Massachusetts at AmherstAmherst, MA 01003United States of America, e-mail: hku@math.umass.edu, meiku@math.umass.edu
Xin-Min Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and StatisticsUniversity of South AlabamaMobile, AL 36688United States of America e-mail: zhang@mathstat.usouthal.edu
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Abstract

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In this paper, we establish a number of inequalities involving symmetric means and symmetric harmonic means. We then apply these new inequalities to obtain many geometric inequalities of isoperimetric type for plane polygons.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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