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The finite form of Jensen's inequality is a special case of this result. Consider the real numbers x 1, …, x n ∈ I and let := + + + denote their arithmetic mean.Then (x 1, …, x n) majorizes the n-tuple (a, a, …, a), since the arithmetic mean of the i largest numbers of (x 1, …, x n) is at least as large as the arithmetic mean a of all the n numbers, for every i ∈ {1, …, n − 1}.
Proof [2]. Since + =, =. A graph = on the -plane is thus also a graph =. From sketching a visual representation of the integrals of the area between this curve and the axes, and the area in the rectangle bounded by the lines =, =, =, =, and the fact that is always increasing for increasing and vice versa, we can see that upper bounds the area of the rectangle below the curve (with equality ...
Bennett's inequality, an upper bound on the probability that the sum of independent random variables deviates from its expected value by more than any specified amount Bhatia–Davis inequality , an upper bound on the variance of any bounded probability distribution
For instance, to solve the inequality 4x < 2x + 1 ≤ 3x + 2, it is not possible to isolate x in any one part of the inequality through addition or subtraction. Instead, the inequalities must be solved independently, yielding x < 1 / 2 and x ≥ −1 respectively, which can be combined into the final solution −1 ≤ x < 1 / 2 .
Following Antman (1983, p. 283), the definition of a variational inequality is the following one.. Given a Banach space, a subset of , and a functional : from to the dual space of the space , the variational inequality problem is the problem of solving for the variable belonging to the following inequality:
A simple example of an interpolation inequality — one in which all the u k are the same u, but the norms ‖·‖ k are different — is Ladyzhenskaya's inequality for functions :, which states that whenever u is a compactly supported function such that both u and its gradient ∇u are square integrable, it follows that the fourth power of u is integrable and [2]
Many important inequalities can be proved by the rearrangement inequality, such as the arithmetic mean – geometric mean inequality, the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, and Chebyshev's sum inequality. As a simple example, consider real numbers : By applying with := for all =, …,, it follows that + + + + + + for every permutation of , …,.
where , is the inner product.Examples of inner products include the real and complex dot product; see the examples in inner product.Every inner product gives rise to a Euclidean norm, called the canonical or induced norm, where the norm of a vector is denoted and defined by ‖ ‖:= , , where , is always a non-negative real number (even if the inner product is complex-valued).