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The paper gives answer to two open questions related to Mulholland’s inequality. First, it is shown that there exists a larger set of solutions to Mulholland’s inequality compared to the one delimited by Mulholland’s condition. Second, it is demonstrated that the set of functions solving Mulholland’s inequality is not closed with respect to compositions.
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Petrík, M. New solutions to Mulholland inequality. Aequat. Math. 89, 1107–1122 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-014-0327-x
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