In this paper, we discuss various estimates to the right-hand (resp. left-hand) side of the Hermite–Hadamard inequality for functions whose absolute values of the second (resp. first) derivatives to positive real powers are log-convex. As an application, we derive certain inequalities involving the q-digamma and q-polygamma functions, respectively. As a consequence, new inequalities for the q-analogue of the harmonic numbers in terms of the q-polygamma functions are derived. Moreover, several inequalities for special means are also considered.

The main objective of this paper is to establish some sufficient conditions so that a class of normalized Mittag–Leffler-type functions satisfies several geometric properties such as starlikeness, convexity, close-to-convexity, and uniform convexity inside the unit disk. Moreover, pre-starlikeness and k-uniform convexity are discussed for these functions. Some sufficient conditions are also derived so that these functions belong to the Hardy spaces ${\mathcal{H}}^p$ and ${\mathcal{H}}^{\infty }$. Furthermore, the inclusion properties of some modified Mittag–Leffler-type functions are discussed. The various results, which are established in this paper, are presumably new, and their importance is illustrated by several interesting consequences and examples. Some potential directions for analogous further research on the subject of the present investigation are indicated in the concluding section.

In 1993 one of the authors formulated some conjectures on monotonicity of ratios for exponential series sections. These lead to a more general conjecture on monotonicity of ratios of Kummer hypergeometric functions, which remained open ever since. In this paper we prove some conjectures for Kummer hypergeometric functions and its further generalizations for Gauss and generalized hypergeometric functions. The results are also closely connected with Turán-type inequalities.