Minkowski inequality

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The Minkowski inequality is a fundamental result in functional analysis and measure theory that generalizes the triangle inequality to L^p spaces, providing a key tool for studying norms and integrable functions.

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instanceOf mathematical inequality
theorem
appliesTo L^p norm
Lp space
assumes underlying measure space is σ-finite (in many standard formulations)
category inequalities in analysis
dependsOn Hölder inequality
domain complex-valued functions
real-valued functions
ensures Lp is a metric space
Lp norm is subadditive
expresses convexity of the L^p norm
field functional analysis
mathematical analysis
measure theory
generalizes triangle inequality
hasConsequence stability of L^p norms under addition
hasVariant Minkowski inequality for sums
Minkowski integral inequality
holdsIn Lebesgue spaces
finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces
sequence spaces ℓ^p
implies L^p norm satisfies triangle inequality
introducedIn early 20th century
isSpecialCaseOf Khinchin–Kahane type inequalities
mathematicalDomain Banach spaces
normed vector spaces
namedAfter Hermann Minkowski
relatedTo Cauchy–Schwarz inequality
linked to: Hölder inequality

Hölder inequality
Jensen inequality
requires 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞
statement For 1 ≤ p < ∞ and measurable functions f,g with finite L^p norms, ||f+g||_p ≤ ||f||_p + ||g||_p
For sequences (x_k),(y_k) in ℓ^p, (∑|x_k + y_k|^p)^{1/p} ≤ (∑|x_k|^p)^{1/p} + (∑|y_k|^p)^{1/p}
type norm inequality
usedFor analysis of integrable functions
establishing completeness of L^p spaces
establishing inequalities between norms
proving that L^p is a normed space
usedIn Fourier analysis
partial differential equations
probability theory
signal processing
statistics
usedToShow Lp convergence properties
Lp spaces are convex
validFor measurable functions with finite p-th power integral

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Hermann Minkowski knownFor Minkowski inequality
Minkowski inequality statement For sequences (x_k),(y_k) in ℓ^p, (∑|x_k + y_k|^p)^{1/p} ≤ (∑|x_k|^p)^{1/p} + (∑|y_k|^p)^{1/p}
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Minkowski inequality hasVariant Minkowski integral inequality
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Minkowski inequality hasVariant Minkowski inequality for sums
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Hermann Minkowski knownFor Minkowski inequality
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Hölder inequality implies Minkowski inequality
Hölder inequality relatedTo Minkowski inequality
Inequalities containsTopic Minkowski inequality
Cauchy–Schwarz inequality relatedTo Minkowski inequality
Young inequality for convolutions proofUses Minkowski integral inequality
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Young's inequality isRelatedTo Minkowski's inequality
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Young's inequality isUsedToProve Minkowski's inequality
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