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On the intersection of two-parameter mean value families

Author(s): Horst Alzer; Stephan Ruscheweyh
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 2655-2662.
MSC (2000): Primary 26B99; Secondary 30B10, 30B40, 30D30, 33C05
Posted: February 9, 2001
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Abstract:

We determine all means which are in the intersection of two multivariable two-parameter mean value families. These families were introduced by C. Gini (1938) and K.B. Stolarsky (1975).


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Additional Information:

Horst Alzer
Affiliation: Morsbacher Str. 10, 51545 Waldbröl, Germany
Email: alzer@wmax03.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de

Stephan Ruscheweyh
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
Email: ruscheweyh@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06050-6
PII: S 0002-9939(01)06050-6
Keywords: Gini means, Stolarsky means, hypergeometric function
Received by editor(s): January 10, 2000
Posted: February 9, 2001
Communicated by: David Preiss
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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