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 , gives
Integrating 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 proves
In particular the product belongs to .
For the projection estimate, use the three-dimensional functional Loomis-Whitney inequality
This 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 yields
The fourth factor is independent of . A further Hölder's inequality with exponents and , followed by the three-dimensional estimate, therefore gives
The 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 . Consequently
This includes zero-measure projections and is sharp for axis-parallel rectangular boxes.
The condition and positivity imply . We prove the Generalized Holder inequality by induction on . The case is the usual Holder inequality. For the induction step, set
The exponents and are conjugate, so Hölder followed by the induction hypothesis gives
This proves the claim.
Since is bounded and smooth, the Sobolev embedding theorem gives continuous embeddings and . Because ,
Taking the norm in time gives
For , the mean value theorem and imply
Apply the Generalized Holder inequality in space, using for the quadratic products and for the cubic products, and then use the two Sobolev embeddings. Pointwise in time this yields
Taking the norm in time proves the required estimate with the factor .