(3)
$$\begin{aligned} D_{n,p,q}(e_{2};x)&=\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum _{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k)}p^{\frac{k(k-1)}{2}} \biggl( \frac{p^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}-q^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}}{p^{k-1}(p^{n}-q^{n})} \biggr)^{2} \\ &=\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k-1)}p^{\frac{k^{2}-5k+4}{2}} \biggl( \frac{p^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}-q^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}}{(p-q)} \biggr) \\ &=\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k-1)}p^{\frac{(k-1)(k-4)}{2}} \biggl( \frac{p^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}-q^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}}{(p-q)} \biggr), \end{aligned}$$
hence
$$\begin{aligned} & D_{n,p,q}(e_{2};x) \\ &\quad=\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}} \frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k+1}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k)}p^{\frac {k(k-3)}{2}} \biggl( \frac{p^{2\mu\theta_{k+1}+k+1}-q^{2\mu\theta _{k+1}+k+1}}{(p-q)} \biggr). \end{aligned}$$
(2.2)
From a simple calculation we know that
$$ [2\mu\theta_{k+1}+k+1]_{p,q}=p^{2\mu(-1)^{k}+1}[2 \mu \theta_{k}+k]_{p,q}+q^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}\bigl[2 \mu(-1)^{k}+1\bigr]_{p,q}. $$
(2.3)
For
\(k=2k\), Eq. (
2.3) implies
$$ [2\mu\theta_{2k+1}+2k+1]_{p,q}=p^{2\mu+1} \biggl(\frac{p^{2\mu \theta_{2k}+2k}-q^{2\mu\theta_{2k}+2k}}{p-q} \biggr)+q^{2\mu \theta_{2k}+2k}[1+2\mu]_{p,q}, $$
(2.4)
and for
\(k=2k+1\), we have
$$\begin{aligned}{} [2\mu\theta_{2k+2}+2k+2]_{p,q}={}&p^{-2\mu+1} \biggl(\frac{p^{2\mu \theta_{2k+1}+2k+1}-q^{2\mu\theta_{2k+1}+2k+1}}{p-q} \biggr) \\ &{}+q^{2\mu \theta_{2k+1}+2k+1}[1-2\mu]_{p,q}. \end{aligned}$$
(2.5)
Now by separating (
2.2), into the even and odd terms and using (
2.4)–(
2.5), we have
$$\begin{aligned} & D_{n,p,q}(e_{2};x) \\ &\quad =\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}p^{2\mu(-1)^{k}+1} \frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k+1}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k)}p^{\frac {k(k-3)}{2}} \biggl( \frac{p^{2\mu\theta_{k}+k}-q^{2\mu\theta _{k}+k}}{(p-q)} \biggr)\Big\vert _{k=2k,2k+1} \\ &\qquad{}+\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{2k+1}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(2k)}p^{k(2k-3)} q^{2\mu\theta_{2k}+2k}[1+2\mu]_{p,q} \\ &\qquad{}+\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{2k+2}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(2k+1)}p^{(k-1)(2k+1)} q^{2\mu\theta_{2k+1}+2k+1}[1-2\mu]_{p,q} \\ &\quad\geq\frac{x^{2}}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}p^{2\mu (-1)^{k+1}} \frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k)}p^{\frac{k(k-1)}{2}} \\ &\qquad{}+\frac{1}{q[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1-2 \mu]_{p,q}\sum _{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(q[n]_{p,q}x)^{2k+1}}{\gamma_{\mu ,q}(2k)}p^{k(2k-3)} \\ &\qquad{}+\frac{q^{2\mu-1}}{[n]_{p,q}^{2}}\frac{1}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1-2\mu]_{p,q}\sum _{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(q[n]_{p,q}x)^{2k+2}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(2k+1)}p^{(k-1)(2k+1)}. \end{aligned}$$
Here we have used the inequality
\([1-2\mu]_{p,q} \leq[1+2\mu]_{p,q}\), and, for
\(0< q< p\leq1\) and
\(\mu> \frac{1}{2}\), a simple calculation led to
\(p^{2\mu}\leq1, p^{-2\mu}\geq1\). Therefore,
$$\begin{aligned} D_{n,p,q}(e_{2};x) &\geq x^{2}+\frac{q^{2\mu}}{[n]_{p,q}} \frac{x}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1-2 \mu]_{p,q}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(\frac {q}{p}[n]_{p,q}x)^{k}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(k)}p^{\frac{k(k-1)}{2}} \\ &\geq x^{2}+\frac{q^{2\mu}}{[n]_{p,q}}[1-2 \mu]_{p,q} \frac{e_{\mu ,p,q}(\frac{q}{p}[n]_{p,q}x)}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)} x. \end{aligned}$$
On the other hand, we have
$$\begin{aligned} &D_{n,p,q}(e_{2};x)\\ &\quad\leq x^{2}+\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}} \frac{x}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1+2 \mu]_{p,q}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(q[n]_{p,q}x)^{2k}}{\gamma_{\mu,q}(2k)}p^{k(2k-3)} \\ &\qquad{}+\frac{q^{2\mu}}{[n]_{p,q}}\frac{x}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1+2\mu]_{p,q}\sum _{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(q[n]_{p,q}x)^{2k+1}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(2k+1)}p^{(k-1)(2k+1)} \\ &\quad\leq x^{2}+\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}}\frac{x}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1+2 \mu]_{p,q}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(\frac{q}{p}[n]_{p,q}x)^{2k}}{\gamma_{\mu,q}(2k)}p^{k(2k-1)} \\ &\qquad{}+\frac{q^{2\mu}}{[n]_{p,q}}\frac{x}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1+2\mu]_{p,q}\sum _{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(\frac{q}{p}[n]_{p,q}x)^{2k+1}}{\gamma_{\mu,p,q}(2k+1)}p^{k(2k+1)} \\ &\quad\leq x^{2}+\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}}\frac{x}{e_{\mu,p,q}([n]_{p,q}x)}[1+2 \mu]_{p,q}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{([n]_{p,q}x)^{k}}{\gamma_{\mu ,p,q}(k)}p^{\frac{k(k-1)}{2}} \\ &\quad\leq x^{2}+\frac{1}{[n]_{p,q}}[1+2 \mu]_{p,q}x. \end{aligned}$$
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