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An upper bound on the total inelastic cross-section as a function of the total cross-section

Recently André Martin has proved a rigorous upper bound on the inelastic cross-section $σ_{inel}$ at high energy which is one-fourth of the known Froissart-Martin-Lukaszuk upper bound on $σ_{tot}$. Here we obtain an upper bound on $σ_{inel}$ in terms of $σ_{tot}$ and show that the Martin bound on $σ_{inel}$ is improved significantly with this added information.