For , Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and part (a.ii) imply
The John-Nirenberg inequality therefore supplies such that, with denoting the average,
Since and are each bounded by this integrand,
For , let
The number of ordered three-term arithmetic progressions in is
By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,
The last sum is the additive energy of , namely the number of additive quadruples. If , then
The Kunita-Watanabe inequality applied to the continuous local martingales gives directly
Equivalently, with the clock and densities from part (i), positivity of the covariance matrix gives , and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
Apply the realized absolute covariation theorem to each dyadic partition of an interval. More explicitly, use the continuous increasing clock and the Radon-Nikodym theorem to write
For each time, let have the centered bivariate normal distribution with covariance matrix , and define
This process is continuous and increasing. To prove convergence, localize , represent the pair as stochastic integrals against a two-dimensional Brownian motion, and approximate the integrands in by bounded step previsible processes. For step integrands, the result is the weak law of large numbers applied on each block to independent Gaussian random variables. The Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequality and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality make the error uniform on each compact interval in probability. Consequently
in the sense of uniform convergence on compacts in probability.
Put
The numerator is the linear kernel, while the reciprocal of the denominator is the kernel from part c applied to and . The product of positive-semidefinite kernels therefore shows that is a positive-semidefinite kernel. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality give , so
Each power is positive semidefinite by the Schur product theorem, and the convergent sum is positive semidefinite.
Moreover . If is its canonical feature map, then
The feature-space norm gives symmetry and the triangle inequality. Finally, implies , hence and
which is equivalent to . Thus is a metric rather than merely a pseudometric.
Part b places in the Lasso cone condition. Keeping the prediction-error term in the same argument gives
where the second step is the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. The restricted eigenvalue condition gives
for nonzero in this cone. Division by proves
The result is immediate when .
Condition on the independent external sample, and abbreviate and . Expanding the plug-in estimator around the true nuisance functions gives
where because the two nuisance mean squared errors vanish, the evaluation sample is independent of the nuisance fits, is bounded, and has bounded support. The linear term is the empirical average of the influence function, so the central limit theorem gives
The remaining bias obeys the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Thus the claimed conclusion follows under the standard product-rate condition
equivalently . Slutsky theorem then yields
As printed, the paper instead assumes only , which is insufficient with its stated definition of MSE. For example, deterministic nuisance errors of size have both MSEs equal to and satisfy the printed condition, while the scaled product bias is . The result therefore requires the stronger condition above, or “MSE” in the printed rate must be read as root mean squared error.
The Quantum de Finetti theorem says that the fixed- reduced density matrix of an exchangeable -particle state approaches
as . Finite versions bound the trace norm error by a constant of order . On a bipartite lattice, the corresponding two-sublattice form is a mixture
This is the mean-field ansatz from the quantum de Finetti theorem.
The bond energy is a linear functional of . A convex combination cannot have energy below its lowest product component, so it remains only to minimize
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives , with equality for pure antiparallel vectors. This reproduces the Néel state and per bond found in part (a).
Yes. The limiting state saturates the de Finetti mean-field lower bound: the minimizing product state belongs to the allowed de Finetti mixture, and the finite-de-Finetti error tends to zero as . At finite the theorem gives only an approximation; entanglement and correlated fluctuations can lower the energy below the product-state value by corrections that vanish in the infinite-coordination limit.
Testing the weak formulation with the constant function proves the necessary compatibility condition
Assume first that is connected and this condition holds. On the mean-zero Sobolev space
use the norm . To prove the needed Poincare-Wirtinger inequality, suppose it failed. There would be with and . The Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem gives a subsequence converging strongly in and weakly in to a function . Its weak derivative vanishes, so connectedness makes constant; its zero mean makes it zero. This contradicts . Hence is an equivalent Hilbert space norm on .
Define
Boundedness of makes a bounded bilinear form, while uniform ellipticity gives
so it is a coercive bilinear form. The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Poincare-Wirtinger inequality make a bounded linear functional. The Lax-Milgram theorem supplies a unique satisfying for every mean-zero . For arbitrary , subtract its mean; the omitted constant contributes zero on both sides because and . Thus solves the original problem.
If two solutions exist, their difference satisfies , so uniform ellipticity gives . It is therefore constant on . The solution is unique up to an additive constant, and its mean-zero representative is unique. If is disconnected, the precise condition is on every connected component , and one independent additive constant remains on each component.
Let with Hilbert--Schmidt, and write . Since , part iii and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for series give
Thus is trace class with the required bound.
Factor as in part b(v). Then Parseval identity for a Hilbertian basis and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality give
The defining series for the operator trace is therefore absolutely convergent and satisfies .
For unit vectors , the adjoint operator of is , and
Hence and part b(iii), followed by Parseval, gives
Scaling proves . A second use of Parseval yields
which proves the asserted rank-one operator formulas.
Apply the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality successively in the three shift variables to the correlation with the quadratic phase . At the third step the third additive derivative of its phase vanishes, leaving
Thus implies
Repeated Cauchy-Schwarz inequality shows that the norm dominates the absolute mean of a function:
Taking and using gives
Only the th block can have nonzero subgradient coordinates. If , the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality shows that the unique supporting vector is . At zero, the defining inequality is for every block vector , which is equivalent to . Thus
Subtract a constant so that , and write , , and . The supplied identity applied to and gives
By Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, and
Thus , so and in particular . Therefore the standard Laplace distribution has .
A kernel for density estimation is an integrable function with , usually also bounded and nonnegative, and its scaled version is . For suitable , their convolution is
Because the observations have length-biased density ,
Thus the exact bias is , exactly the same as for the ordinary kernel density estimator based directly on observations from .
Write . The estimator is the average of , so
Its mean is . Integrating the pointwise variance therefore gives
Finally, Cauchy-Schwarz inequality under density gives
Equality would require to be constant almost surely, impossible for a density, so . The ordinary KDE has the same negative term but leading integrated variance ; length-biased sampling strictly inflates it.
With densities ,
By Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,
Also , so .
The Hellinger affinity is . Product densities and Fubini's theorem give , hence
Le Cam two-point lemma states, for squared-error estimation at parameter points , that
Take , . The one-observation uniform densities overlap on length , so . Therefore
The first distance inequality gives . Le Cam's lemma now yields
This proves the claim with the displayed universal positive constant.
Thomson principle states that the effective resistance is the minimum energy of a unit flow from to :
An edge cutset separating and is a set of edges whose removal disconnects them. Every unit flow has net flux one across each such cutset . By Cauchy-Schwarz inequality,
For disjoint cutsets, summing these energy lower bounds and applying Thomson's principle gives the Nash-Williams inequality
The commute time identity is
The limiting conditional error of one-nearest-neighbour classification is . Put and . By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, the other probabilities satisfy
Consequently
Now , and Jensen inequality gives . Taking expectations proves
Take the inner product of the finite-dimensional equation with . Part a gives exact cancellation of the nonlinear term:
By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and the Poincare inequality,
Thus every solution satisfies
The bound is independent of .