Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 44 4 e Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Write and use the product measure . For , the conjugate exponents are and . Factor the utility integrand asThe Holder inequality on this product measure givesDivide by to obtain the Hölder bound for discounted CRRA consumption:For a finite right side this is ordinary Hölder; on the infinite measure space one can first truncate time and then pass by monotone convergence theorem. If and , the bound is valid but uninformative. If , the budget forces almost everywhere, so the utility integral is zero; handle this separately instead of writing an undefined .