Author's conjecture on improving a modified Bessel-function integral inequality

Let n<1n<1, let u1n+2(1n) u\geq 1-n+\sqrt{2(1-n)}, and define

αν,n:=ν+n(ν+n)22ν1.\alpha_{\nu,n}:=\nu+n-\sqrt{(\nu+n)^2-2\nu-1}.

For the modified Bessel function of the second kind KμK_\mu, the author conjectures that, for every x>0x>0,

xKν+n(t)tν,dt>Kν+nαν,n(x)xν.\int_x^\infty\frac{K_{\nu+n}(t)}{t^\nu}\\,\mathrm{d}t>\frac{K_{\nu+n-\alpha_{\nu,n}}(x)}{x^\nu}.

The exponent shift is claimed to be best possible up to the symmetry Kμ(x)=Kμ(x)K_{-\mu}(x)=K_\mu(x): defining

αν,n:=ν+n+(ν+n)22ν1,\alpha'_{\nu,n}:=\nu+n+\sqrt{(\nu+n)^2-2\nu-1},

any βαν,n,αν,n\beta\notin\\{\alpha_{\nu,n},\alpha'_{\nu,n}\\} either gives a strictly smaller right-hand side for every x>0x>0, or fails to provide a lower bound at some y>0y>0. The source also records equality in the corresponding inequality when n=1n=1, for all νR\nu\in\mathbb{R}; the conjectured statement itself is presented under n<1n<1.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Robert E. Gaunt, “Inequalities for some integrals involving modified Bessel functions”, arXiv:1806.00524 (2018).

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.