Characterizations of the equality of two-variable generalized quasiarithmetic means

This paper is motivated by an astonishing result of H. Alzer and S. Ruscheweyh published in 2001, which states that the intersection of the classes two-variable Gini means and Stolarsky means is equal to the class of two-variable power means. The two-variable Gini and Stolarsky means form two-parameter classes of means expressed in terms of power functions. They can naturally be generalized in terms of the so-called Bajraktarevie and Cauchy means. Our aim is to show that the intersection of these two classes of functional means, under high-order differentiability assumptions, is equal to the class of two-variable quasiarithmetic means. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc.