Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2009/ii/paper-2/22h/a/solution

Let . The scalar Young inequality follows by maximizing over , obtaining . If both norms are nonzero, apply it to and , and sum over a finite initial segment. Passing to the increasing limit gives
Zero norms give the trivial case. This proves Hölder's inequality without assuming convergence of the product series in advance.

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