L’Hôpital’s monotone rule, Gromov’s theorem, and operations that preserve the monotonicity of quotients
Author(s) -
Ricardo Estrada,
Miroslav Pavlović
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
publications de l institut mathematique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.246
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1820-7405
pISSN - 0350-1302
DOI - 10.2298/pim1715011e
Subject(s) - monotonic function , monotone polygon , mathematics , mathematical proof , function (biology) , quotient , discrete mathematics , lambda , combinatorics , pure mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , geometry , evolutionary biology , optics , biology
We study several operators T that when applied to both the numerator and denominator of an increasing, or decreasing, function u/v produce another increasing, or decreasing, function T (u)/T (v). We also give new proofs of the monotone form of L’Hôpital’s rule and of Gromov’s theorem.
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