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Young's functional with Lebesgue-Stieltjes integrals

Abstract

For non-decreasing real functions ff and gg, we consider the functional $ T(f,g ; I,J)=\int_{I} f(x)\di g(x) + \int_J g(x)\di f(x)$, where II and JJ are intervals with JIJ\subseteq I. In particular case with I=[a,t]I=[a,t], J=[a,s]J=[a,s], sts\leq t and g(x)=xg(x)=x, this reduces to the expression in classical Young's inequality. We survey some properties of Lebesgue-Stieltjes interals and present a new simple proof for change of variables. Further, we formulate a version of Young's inequality with respect to arbitrary positive finite measure on real line including a purely discrete case, and discuss an application related to medians of probability distributions and a summation formula that involves values of a function and its inverse at integers.

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