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.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 105 3 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
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, setThe exponents and are conjugate, so Hölder followed by the induction hypothesis givesThis proves the claim.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 105 3 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
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 implyApply 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 yieldsTaking the norm in time proves the required estimate with the factor .