Thursday, 21 June 2018

calculus - What forms can a function take such its derivative is greater than or equal to the function?



Following this question and discussion recently
Is the derivative of a function bigger or equal to ex will always be bigger or equal to the function ?!



I decided to look at the different forms that a function which is always less than its derivative takes, so instead of looking at when f(x)f(x)1. I restated the question to this.



Let g(x) be a function such that g(x)1 x then solving the following the inequality will give us the functions we need.

f(x)f(x)=g(x)



Solving that differential equation you get that f(x) takes on the form (where k is a constant and g(x)1 x)
f(x)=keg(x)dx



My question is do all functions that have derivatives greater than the function itself have this form or am i missing something?


Answer



We are looking for a simple criterion for a positive function f, which is equivalent to the differential inequality f(x)f(x) for all x. One can say the following:



A differentiable function f:RR>0 satisfies f(x)f(x) for all x iff the function g(x):=f(x)ex

is increasing.



Proof. One has g(x)=(f(x)f(x))ex, and this is 0 for all x iff f(x)f(x) for all x.


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