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  Volume 8, Issue 1, Article 4
 
On an Opial Inequality with a Boundary Condition

    Authors: Man Kam Kwong,  
    Keywords: Opial inequality, Integral condition, Calculus of variation.  
    Date Received: 01/11/06  
    Date Accepted: 08/03/07  
    Subject Codes:

26D10, 26D15.

 
    Editors: Don B. Hinton,  
 
    Abstract:

R.C. Brown conjectured (in 2001) that the Opial-type inequality

$ displaystyle 4 $ int_{0}^{1} $ vert yy^{$ prime }$ vert  dx $ leq $ int_{0}^{1} (y^{$ prime})^2 dx , $
holds for all absolutely continuous functions $ y:[0,1]$ rightarrow $ mathbb{R} $ such that $ y^{$ prime}$ in L^2$ and $ $ int_{0}^{1} y dx=0 $. This was subsequently proved by Denzler [3]. An alternative proof was given by Brown and Plum [2]. Here we give a shorter proof.

         
       
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