Let , the essential supremum of . If , almost everywhere and every Lp norm is zero. Suppose . Since almost everywhere and ,For any with , the measurable set has positive Lebesgue measure; otherwise would be an essential upper bound. HenceFor fixed , . Thus . Letting and combining with the upper bound provesThe positive-measure superlevel sets explain why the Lp norms converge to the supremum norm even when the essential maximum is never attained.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 107 6 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Put , where . Since , part (ii), followed by a -th root, gives the Moser iteration stepAfter steps,The geometric series and its differentiated form giveIn particular the exact convergent product isThe printed hint's equality to a single power of is not correct in general; its claimed finiteness is correct and the displayed expression supplies the correction.
On a finite-measure domain, Lp norms converge to the supremum norm for a bounded continuous function. Indeed, the upper bound is ; for every , the set has positive measure, giving . Let in the iteration and use part (i), which gives . The Dirichlet eigenfunction supremum estimate isThe eigenvalue exponent is exactly . The constant depends only on : the supplied zero-boundary Sobolev inequality has a dimension-only constant, and every product factor above depends only on .