Power Mean Inequality
The Power Mean Inequality is a generalized form of the multi-variable Arithmetic Mean-Geometric Mean Inequality.
Inequality
For real numbers and positive real numbers , implies the th power mean is greater than or equal to the th.
Algebraically, implies that
\[\sqrt[k_1]{\frac{a_{1}^{k_1}+a_{2}^{k_1}+\cdots +a_{n}^{k_1}}{n}}\ge \sqrt[k_2]{\frac{a_{1}^{k_2}+a_{2}^{k_2}+\cdots +a_{n}^{k_2}}{n} \right)}}\] (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
which can be written more concisely as
\[\sqrt[k_1]{\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n a_{i}^{k_1}}{n}}\ge \sqrt[k_2]{\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n a_{i}^{k_2}}{n} \right)}}\] (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
The Power Mean Inequality follows from the fact that (where is the th power mean) together with Jensen's Inequality.
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