Chao-Ping Chen's upper Wilker inequality for inverse trigonometric functions

For 0<x<10<x<1, the functions arcsinxx\frac{\arcsin x}{x} and arctanxx\frac{\arctan x}{x} are defined, and the associated inequality is considered. Chao-Ping Chen's conjecture. If 0<x<10<x<1, then

(arcsinxx)2+arctanxx<2+π2+π8πx3arctanx.\left(\frac{\arcsin x}{x}\right)^2+\frac{\arctan x}{x}<2+\frac{\pi^2+\pi-8}{\pi}x^3\arctan x.

The constant π2+π8π\frac{\pi^2+\pi-8}{\pi} should be the best possible. This is an upper counterpart to a previously proved lower inequality, and the proposed sharp constant is motivated by the limiting value of the corresponding quotient; the paper treats it as one of Chao-Ping Chen's open problems.

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Branko Malesevic, Bojan Banjac and Ivana Jovovic, “A proof of two conjectures of Chao-Ping Chen for inverse trigonometric functions”, arXiv:1508.06947 (2015).

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