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Minkowski's Inequality and the Seminormed Space of Power-Integrable Functions

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Reason: First version. Minkowski's inequality, making the p-integrable functions a real vector space carrying the p-seminorm. · 1,617 chars · 5 deps · depth 17

The p-seminorm of a sum is at most the sum of the seminorms, so the power-integrable functions form a real vector space on which the p-seminorm is subadditive and absolutely homogeneous.

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In the setting of Measure Spaces and the Lebesgue Integral: Standing Notation, let (X,F,μ)(X,\mathcal{F},\mu) be a measure space, let pp be a real number with 1p1\le p, and write Lp\mathcal{L}^{p} for the set of pp-integrable functions on (X,F,μ)(X,\mathcal{F},\mu) and p\lVert\cdot\rVert_{p} for the pp-seminorm. Then the following hold.

1. (Minkowski's inequality) Let f,gLpf,g\in\mathcal{L}^{p}. Then the pointwise sum f+gf+g belongs to Lp\mathcal{L}^{p} and

f+gpfp+gp.\lVert f+g\rVert_{p}\le\lVert f\rVert_{p}+\lVert g\rVert_{p} .

2. (A seminormed vector space) Lp\mathcal{L}^{p} is a linear subspace of the real vector space of all real-valued maps on XX, and is therefore itself a vector space over R\mathbb{R} under the pointwise operations, with zero vector the map taking the value 00 at every point. For all f,gLpf,g\in\mathcal{L}^{p} and every real cc the pp-seminorm satisfies

0fp,cfp=cfp,f+gpfp+gp.0\le\lVert f\rVert_{p},\qquad\lVert cf\rVert_{p}=|c|\,\lVert f\rVert_{p},\qquad\lVert f+g\rVert_{p}\le\lVert f\rVert_{p}+\lVert g\rVert_{p} .

3. (Finite sums) Let nNn\in\mathbb{N} and let fkLpf_{k}\in\mathcal{L}^{p} for each k[n]k\in[n]. Then the finite sum k=1nfk\sum_{k=1}^{n}f_{k}, formed in the vector space of clause 2, belongs to Lp\mathcal{L}^{p} and

k=1nfkpk=1nfkp.\Bigl\lVert\sum_{k=1}^{n}f_{k}\Bigr\rVert_{p}\le\sum_{k=1}^{n}\lVert f_{k}\rVert_{p} .
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