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Article #61Better than Cauchy-Schwarz
From: Brian Sutin
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:20
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 22:20
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I have a conjecture which I have been unable to find in the library, prove,
or discover a conterexample:
There exists some constant C > 0 such that for all non-negative functions
f(x) on [0,inf] which satisfy the inequality
INT{ f(x) x dx } <= C INT{ f(x) dx } ,
the inequality
INT{ f(x) dx }^2 <= INT{ f(x)^2 dx }
also holds. All integrals are over [0,inf] and converge.
Physically, this means that for any positive distribution of mass f(x), if
the center of mass is less than C, then the mass is bounded by the L_2 norm.
The conclusion is similar to Cauchy-Schwarz, but with an interval of
integration longer than 1.
Actually, the problem I need to solve is much more complicated than this,
but I am hoping that I can learn something from the method of proof for
this, since it is very similar.
Brian Sutin sutin@helios.ucsc.edu
Lick Observatory, UCSC Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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