Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 8 5 Solution 2026-10-14
For , write for the coordinates other than , and setBy Tonelli theorem, . The key estimate is the functional Loomis-Whitney inequality:Here is a proof in every dimension. In dimension two, the left-hand side separates into a product of two one-dimensional integrals, so Tonelli theorem gives equality. For , first integrate . Apply Hölder's inequality with factors to , which may depend on , and leave the factor outside that integral. WriteEach depends on the coordinates other than . With , the full integral is at mostPut . A second application of Hölder's inequality, with exponents and , bounds this expression byBy induction in dimension , . Since , substitution proves the claimed functional inequality. Nonnegative integrands justify all integrations; truncation gives the extended-valued version if necessary.
The pointwise hypotheses imply , soApply the proved functional inequality and take the power to obtainFor the useful case all the right-hand norms are finite. If one of them is zero, its line integral vanishes for almost every transverse coordinate and forces almost everywhere; there is no division by that factor. In dimension one the corresponding direct assertion is .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 5 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For conjugate exponents , , Hölder's inequality states that . If in the requested product estimate, every and multiplication of essential bounds proves it directly. Suppose . Factors with can again be bounded pointwise by their essential suprema.
Here is an explicit finite-exponent proof of the remaining Generalized Holder inequality. Put , so , and normalize . If one norm is zero the product vanishes almost everywhere. Otherwise . The weighted arithmetic-geometric mean inequality, applied to with weights , givesIntegrating gives . If only one finite exponent remains, its weight is one and the same argument is an equality. Restoring the normalization and taking the th root provesIn particular the product belongs to .
For the projection estimate, use the three-dimensional functional Loomis-Whitney inequalityThis permitted three-dimensional result also follows directly by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality: integrate the square root of in , obtaining the square root of the product of their marginal integrals, and then apply Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in against .
Let be any nonnegative integrable function of the three coordinates excluding . For , define by integrating in . First Hölder's inequality with three equal exponents yieldsThe fourth factor is independent of . A further Hölder's inequality with exponents and , followed by the three-dimensional estimate, therefore givesThe marginal-integral identifications use Tonelli's theorem. Now take . The projections are compact and hence measurable with finite measure. Every has all its projected coordinates in the corresponding , so . ConsequentlyThis includes zero-measure projections and is sharp for axis-parallel rectangular boxes.