Interval-Valued Erdélyi–Kober Fractional Integral Operators: Hölder, Minkowski, and Hermite–Hadamard Type Inequalities with Applications

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Mohammad Akram, Haitham Qawaqneh, Waqar Afzal, Mujahid Abbas, Muhammad Tariq, Ernesto Urenda-Cázares, Jorge E. Macías-Díaz, Hijaz Ahmad

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In this article, we introduce a novel interval-valued Erdélyi–Kober fractional integral operator. Using this operator, we establish several new variants of Hermite–Hadamard, midpoint, Hölder, and Minkowski type inequalities for interval-valued convex mappings. To illustrate the validity and sharpness of the obtained results, we provide nontrivial examples supported by tables and detailed remarks. We also show that a number of known results in the existing literature arise as special cases of our main inequalities. Moreover, the derived Hermite–Hadamard-type bounds are expressed in a new form involving special functions that explicitly involve the Gamma and Beta functions. As an application, we demonstrate the usefulness of our results in estimating the error of numerical quadrature rules, particularly the trapezoidal rule, for interval-valued functions.

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