22nd December 2008

Prove this tough looking and sounding Cauchy–Schwarz inequality:

If x1,...,xn ε R and y1,...,yn ε R

|x1y1+...+xnyn|2 ≤ (|x1|2+...+|xn|2) (|y1|2+....+|yn|2)

Comment on the equality!

8 Answers

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Lokesh Verma ·

x's and y's are all reals..

There is a more general version.. but we are preparing for IIT JEE not INMO :)

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Abhishek Priyam ·

If x1,...,xn ε R and y1,...,yn ε R are the components of x and y ;

samajh me nahi aaya :( " components"

mera dimag aaj anhi chal raha lagta hai :(

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Lokesh Verma ·

arrey wo componenets etc was mistyping.. or u could say it was a more general result.. i have removed that "crap"

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Abhishek Priyam ·

:)

Now its alright

Cheers to me.. :)

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Abhishek Priyam ·

But still if theres square in RHS then why thats | |

:P

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Abhishek Priyam ·

Clearly equlity holds when all xis or all yis are zero

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Dr.House ·

{x12+x22+...................+xn2}{y12+y22+.............+yn2} - {x1y1+.......................xnyn}2

=1/2 Σ{xp2yq2+xq2yp2-2xpypxqyq} note that inside Σ p≠q and p,q=1,2,3,4,.......................n

the equality sign holds iff xpyq-xqyp=0 i.e. iff xp:xq::yp:yq , for every pair of suffixes p,q i.e.e iff x1:x2:.............:xn::y1:y2:...............yn

this is the first of the proofs i have

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Lokesh Verma ·

good work...

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