Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/ib/paper-3/2f/solution

Put . If , take the inner product with the unit vector . Then
by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality; the case is immediate. This is the triangle inequality for a vector-valued integral.
Equality in the Euclidean argument requires for every : the nonnegative continuous difference has integral zero. Equality in Cauchy-Schwarz inequality then says with . Conversely, if for one fixed and a continuous , then for every norm,
Thus these nonnegative-ray functions, including , are exactly the required functions.

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