Sunday, 31 May 2015

Proof using Cauchy-Schwarz inequality



Let's say a1,a2,...,an are positive real numbers and a1+a2+...+an=1



I've to prove the following expression using the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality but I don't know how to do it.



a1+a2++ann



Choosing a second set of real numbers b1=b2=bn=1 and applying Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, I got the next inequality, which is almost trivial:




1n.a21+a22++a2n



but I think is a dead end and isn't the correct way to prove it.



Please, any ideas?



Thanks so much in advance.


Answer



Let a=(a1,a2,,an) and b=(1,1,,1). Then and \|\textbf{b}\|=\sqrt{n}. Thus

\sqrt{a_1}+\sqrt{a_2}+\cdots+\sqrt{a_n}=\langle \textbf{a},\textbf{b} \rangle \leq \|\textbf{a}\| \|\textbf{b}\|=\sqrt{n}


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