Short proof that the arithmetic mean is greater than the harmonic mean and its reverse inequality

The Arithmetic - Harmonic Mean

Consider two sequences generated by ",,+ i Mi"„<hn)hn*\ M'i"„+X,b„), where the a„ and b„ are positive and M and M' are means. The paper discusses the nine processes which arise by restricting the choice of M and M' to the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, one case being that used by Archimedes to estimate it. Most of the paper is devoted to the arithmetic-harmonic mean, whose limit is e...

An Arithmetic-Geometric-Harmonic Mean Inequality Involving Hadamard Products

Given matrices of the same size, A = a ij ] and B = b ij ], we deene their Hadamard Product to be A B = a ij b ij ]. We show that if x i > 0 and q p 0 then the n n matrices q j # are positive deenite and relate these facts to some matrix valued arithmetic-geometric-harmonic mean inequalities-some of which involve Hadamard products and others unitarily invariant norms. It is known that if A is p...

The matrix arithmetic-geometric mean inequality revisited

Some More Inequalities for Arithmetic Mean, Harmonic Mean and Variance

We derive bounds on the variance of a random variable in terms of its arithmetic and harmonic means. Both discrete and continuous cases are considered, and an operator version is obtained. Some refinements of the Kantorovich inequality are obtained. Bounds for the largest and smallest eigenvalues of a positive definite matrix are also obtained.

Improved logarithmic-geometric mean inequality and its application

In this short note, we present a refinement of the logarithmic-geometric mean inequality. As an application of our result, we obtain an operator inequality associated with geometric and logarithmic means.