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A study is made of a symmetric form of the m-th degree and the class of symmetric means (arithmetic) associated with it, the simplest of these being the Muirhead means. A number of new theorems on comparability, related to Muirhead's Theorem, are proven.

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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol 3, No. 2, pp. 133–144, February, 1968.

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Bekishev, G.A. Inequalities for symmetric means. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 3, 83–91 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01094326

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