An effective necessary and sufficient condition for S-convexity is presented and applications are given.

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Czesław Stępniak

Institute of Mathematics, University of Rzeszów, Al. Rejtana 16 A, 35-310 Rzeszów, Poland

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C. Stępniak. “An Effective Characterization of Schur-Convex Functions with Applications.” Journal of Convex Analysis 14 (2007), No. 1, 103–108. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca14008