Let and satisfy the hypotheses of the Lax-Milgram theorem. By the Riesz representation theorem, there are a bounded linear operator and such that
Coercivity and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality imply
so . Thus is injective and its range is closed. If is orthogonal to its range, then for every ; taking and using coercivity gives . The range is therefore dense as well as closed, hence all of . There is a unique , and it satisfies for all . The lower bound also gives .
Let
Applying the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in gives
Take absolute values and apply Cauchy-Schwarz to . Since , expanding the remaining square gives
Taking fourth roots proves the claimed bilinear quadratic exponential sum fourth-moment bound.
Write
Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality first in the variable carrying and then in the variable carrying . After the invertible linear changes of variables permitted by , apply the assumed three-function estimate to the resulting multiplicative derivatives. The standard calculation gives
By the Derivative identity for the Gowers U3 norm, the last two factors are and . Taking eighth roots proves
If has density , write . Expanding , the constant term is , and the displayed inequality bounds every nonconstant term after translation of one factor by a norm of the balanced function . Thus sufficiently small makes the normalized number of four-term arithmetic progressions close to .
Choose a test function that equals one on the unit ball and vanishes outside the ball of radius two. Since
integration by parts gives
The first term on the right is supported where , where . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and Young inequality bound the second term by
After absorbing the first integral,
This estimate also proves completeness. Indeed, a Cauchy sequence in is Cauchy in locally, while its gradients and the functions converge in . The limits agree locally with a function , so and in the energy norm. Thus is a Hilbert space; it is the confining-potential energy space for .
For a partition of , apply the first inequality to each increment of the covariation and then the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality:
Taking the supremum over partitions proves the Kunita-Watanabe inequality
Under , conditional independence gives
Multiplication by the measurable sign and the law of total expectation prove the first identity.
Write
Then
Conditional orthogonality under and the variance bounds in (ii) give
and similarly for the term containing . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounds the last term by
which is by .
The leading summands are independent, centered, and have variance because . The central limit theorem and consistency of therefore give, by the Slutsky theorem,
This is the generalized covariance measure statistic.
Without the null, condition first on . Since
the term involving vanishes, giving
For the specified alternative, independence and make the right side
The constant choice gives zero because , so no first-order power is expected. Taking
instead gives , producing asymptotic power.
The Group Lasso penalty is
By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality within each group,
Put . Comparing the objective at and gives
On , the preceding duality inequality gives
The triangle inequality then yields
When and ,
Writing , the exponential Markov inequality and the supplied chi-square moment-generating-function bound give
The prescribed equation makes this . A union bound over the groups therefore gives
The pushforward measure of under is
The Lebesgue decomposition theorem says that for sigma-finite measures there are unique measures and such that
For a convex lower-semicontinuous function with , choose any measure dominating probability measures , put and , and define the f-divergence
using the lower-semicontinuous perspective value when . This definition includes the singular part and is independent of .
To prove the data processing inequality for f-divergences, let and use . The densities of and , pulled back to , are and . Since the perspective
is jointly convex, conditional Jensen inequality gives
Integration proves
The chi-squared divergence is
when , and is infinite otherwise.
Fix a probability measure . Let be uniform on and, conditionally on , draw from . Compare this joint law with the reference law under which is uniform and independent of . For
the target expectation is , while its reference expectation is
because the form a partition. Its reference variance is . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality applied to the likelihood ratio gives
The last divergence separates over :
Taking the infimum over all probability measures proves the required inequality.
Take and . Initially the two masses are in the product state
The branch-dependent Newtonian gravitational potential energy is . Under the stated approximation, only the branch acquires an appreciable relative phase, so after time ,
The determinant of its two-by-two coefficient matrix is , which is nonzero unless is a multiple of . Thus the state generally has Schmidt rank two: the branch-dependent gravitational phase creates gravitationally induced entanglement.
An entanglement witness has a bound obeyed by every separable quantum state and violated by at least one entangled state. For a product state with Bloch vectors and ,
by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Convexity gives the same bound for every separable mixed state. Consequently certifies entanglement; in conventional operator form, one of has negative expectation whenever the absolute-value criterion is violated.
For the state above, direct use of the Pauli matrices gives
With the supplied values,
which is close to . Hence , and to the nearest integer
This is the operating principle of the Bose--Marletto--Vedral experiment.
Let . For every ,
Thus is a coercive operator. If it is invertible and , the lower bound and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality give
and therefore . Hence
The extremal number is the maximum number of edges in an -vertex graph containing no subgraph isomorphic to .
Let be triangle-free with edges. For every edge , the neighbourhoods of and are disjoint apart from their endpoints, so
. Summing over edges and applying Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
while
Thus , proving the required Mantel theorem bound.
For , Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
Thus every is bounded and
. The truncations
have finite rank and satisfy
Hence every such Hilbert-Schmidt operator is compact.
Define
This is an inner product inducing . If is Cauchy in this norm, then each converges to some , and the usual Fatou/tail argument gives
and
. Defining
produces a bounded operator by the preceding estimate and gives
in . Thus is a Hilbert space.
The norms are not equivalent in infinite dimension. The rank- orthogonal projection has
Although , no uniform reverse inequality can hold.
Colour every vertex of a graph independently and uniformly with three colours, and retain precisely the edges whose endpoints have different colours. Each edge is retained with probability , so linearity of expectation gives expected retained edge count
Some colouring therefore retains at least edges. Its retained subgraph is three-colourable, and deleting edges if necessary leaves exactly
edges without increasing its chromatic number. This is the three-colourable two-thirds subgraph lemma.
To prove sharpness, take . If is three-colourable and its colour classes have sizes , then they are independent sets, so
where the final inequality follows from Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since ,
Given , choose with . Then every three-colourable subgraph has at most edges.
The periodic Wirtinger inequality says that if is continuously differentiable, -periodic, and has mean zero, then
Equality holds exactly for a linear combination of and .
First suppose is one positively oriented simple closed curve, parametrized by arc length as for . Translating the origin, which changes neither length nor area, makes both and have mean zero. Green theorem and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality give
Applying Wirtinger's inequality to both coordinate functions and using the unit-speed identity yields
and therefore the planar isoperimetric inequality
For several boundary components, apply the simple-curve result to the relevant enclosed regions and use ; holes only decrease the area.
Equality in both inequalities forces
for constant vectors , with the unit-speed and Cauchy-Schwarz equality conditions making and perpendicular and equally long. Thus the boundary is a circle. Conversely, a circular domain has area and perimeter , so equality holds.
Put
Independence and give
whereas gives
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, applied to and , yields
Consequently
Equality holds exactly when all positive exposures are equal. This is the variance comparison for Poisson exposure estimators.
The functional
is bounded on by the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Poincare inequality:
The Riesz representation theorem therefore supplies a unique satisfying
for every test function. This is exactly the weak identity from part (a). Uniqueness also follows by testing the homogeneous difference with itself.
Choose a cutoff function supported in , equal to one on , and satisfying . Use as a test function in the weak formulation:
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality followed by Young inequality gives
and hence
This is the Caccioppoli inequality. The numerical constant is convention-dependent and is normally absorbed into the displayed estimate; replacing the radii by fixed intermediate radii gives the stated form with one universal constant.
First replace by and later let . In the weak subsolution inequality use the admissible truncations approximating . Uniform ellipticity, the coefficient bound, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, and Young inequality give
and therefore
Apply the Sobolev embedding theorem to . The preceding estimate yields, for concentric balls ,
Starting with , taking , and choosing radii decreasing to , the product of constants converges because . Letting proves
This exponent-raising argument is Moser iteration.
Use the four families from the hint. Put , , and . The families are up-sets, while their complements are down-sets. Applying the Harris-Kleitman inequality to the up-sets, and equivalently to the down-sets after taking complements of the ground set, gives
The cross-incomparability assumption gives
Consequently
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality now yields
This is the sharp two-family Cross-Sperner inequality.
For , the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and part a give
Thus is uniformly integrable. Combining this with the weak convergence of random variables from part b yields convergence of the first moments:
By symmetry of the standard normal density,