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A sharp parameterized Ostrowski-type inequality in L2 with applications

Muhammad Kamran Khan1, Iftikhar Hussain1
1Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi, University Road, Karachi-75270, Pakistan
Copyright © Muhammad Kamran Khan, Iftikhar Hussain. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We present a new sharp Ostrowski-type inequality in the L2 norm for functions with absolutely continuous second derivative and third derivative in L2. The inequality depends on two parameters α, γ ∈ [0, 1] and generalizes the sharp inequality of Liu [1]. Special choices of parameters yield known sharp inequalities for midpoint, trapezoid, Simpson, corrected Simpson, and averaged midpoint-trapezoid rules. A complete sharpness proof is given, including explicit verification of the extremal function’s regularity. Applications to composite numerical integration are provided with explicit error bounds, and a numerical example illustrates the theoretical estimates.

Keywords: Ostrowski inequality, sharp inequality, L_2 space, numerical integration, parameterized quadrature