Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics A GENERALIZATION OF HÖLDER AND MINKOWSKI INEQUALITIES YILMAZ YILMAZ, M. KEMAL ÖZDEMİR AND İHSAN SOLAK Department of Mathmematics İnönü University 44280 Malatya / TURKEY volume 7, issue 5, article 193, 2006. Received 29 June, 2006; accepted 09 November, 2006. Communicated by: K. Nikodem EMail: yyilmaz@inonu.edu.tr EMail: kozdemir@inonu.edu.tr EMail: isolak@inonu.edu.tr Abstract Contents JJ J II I Home Page Go Back Close c 2000 Victoria University ISSN (electronic): 1443-5756 177-06 Quit Abstract In this work, we give a generalization of Hölder and Minkowski inequalities to normal sequence algebras with absolutely monotone seminorm. Our main result is Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 2.2 which state these extensions. Taking F = `1 and k·kF = k·k1 in both these theorems, we obtain classical versions of these inequalities. Also, using these generalizations we construct the vectorvalued sequence space F (X, λ, p) as a paranormed space which is a most general form of the space c0 (X, λ, p) investigated in [6]. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 26D15, 47A30; Secondary 46A45. Key words: Inequalities, Hölder, Minkowski, Sequence algebra, Vector-valued sequence space. Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Generalizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3 An Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 References A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 2 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au 1. Introduction Hölder and Minkowski inequalities have been used in several areas of mathematics, especially in functional analysis. These inequalities have been generalized in various directions. The purpose of this paper is to give some extensions of the classical Hölder and Minkowski inequalities. We discovered that the classical versions are only a type of these extensions in `1 which is a normal sequence algebra with absolutely monotone seminorm k·k1 . We now recall some definitions and facts. A Frechet space is a complete total paranormed space. If H is an Hausdorff space then an FH-space is a vector subspace X of H which is a Frechet space and is continuously embedded in H, that is, the topology of X is larger than the relative topology of H. Moreover if X is a normed FH-space then it is called a BH-space. An FH-space with H = w, the space of all complex sequences, is called an FK-space, so a BK-space is a normed FK-space. We know that `∞ , c, c0 and `p (1 ≤ p < ∞) are BK-spaces. The following relation exists among these sequence spaces: `p ⊂ c0 ⊂ c ⊂ `∞ . A basis for a topological vector spaceP X is a sequence (bn ) such that every x ∈ X has tn bn . This is equivalent to the fact Pma unique representation x = that x − n=1 tn bn → 0 (m → ∞) in the vector topology of X. For example, c0 and `p have (en ) as a basis (en is a sequence x where xn = 1, xk = 0 for n 6= P k). If X has a basis (bn ) the functionals ln , given by ln (x) = tn when x= tn bn , are linear. They are called the coordinate functionals and (bn ) is called a Schauder basis if each ln ∈ X 0 , the continuous dual of X. A basis of A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 3 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au a Frechet space must be a Schauder basis [7]. An FK-space X is said to have AK, or be an AK-space, if X ⊃ φ (the space of all finite sequences) and (en ) [n] [n] is P x, where x , the nth section of x is Pan basis for X, i.e. for each x, x → xk ek for all x ∈ X [8]. The spaces c0 k=1 xk ek ; otherwise expressed, x = and `p are AK-spaces but c and `∞ are not. We say that a sequence space F is an AK-BK space if it is both a BK and an AK-space. An algebra A over a field K is a vector space A over K such that for each ordered pair of elements x, y ∈ A a unique product xy ∈ A is defined with the properties (1) (xy)z = x(yz) (2a) x(y + z) = xy + xz (2b) (x + y)z = xz + yz (3) α(xy) = (αx)y = x(αy) for all x, y, z ∈ A and scalars α [4]. If K = R (real field) or C (complex field) then A is said to be a real or complex algebra, respectively. Let F be a sequence space and x, y be arbitrary members of F . F is called a sequence algebra if it is closed under the multiplication defined by xy = (xi yi ), i ≥ 1, and is called normal or solid if y ∈ F whenever |yi | ≤ |xi |, for some x ∈ F . If F is both a normal and sequence algebra then it is called a normal sequence algebra. For example, c is a sequence algebra but not normal. w, `∞ , c0 and `p (0 < p < ∞) are normal sequence algebras. A paranorm p on a normal sequence space F is said to be absolutely monotone if p(x) ≤ p(y) for x, y ∈ F with |xi | ≤ |yi | for each i [3]. The norm kxk∞ = sup |xk | which makes the spaces `∞ , c, c0 a BK-space, is P p 1/p absolutely monotone. For p ≥ 1, the norm kxk = ( ∞ over `p is k=1 |xk | ) A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 4 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au P p absolutely monotone. Also, for 0 < p < 1, the p-norm kxkp = ∞ k=1 |xk | over `p is absolutely monotone. An Orlicz function is a function M : [0, ∞) −→ [0, ∞) which is continuous, non-decreasing and convex with M (0) = 0, M (x) > 0 for x > 0 and M (x) → ∞ as x → ∞. We say that the Orlicz function M satisfies the ∆´-condition if there exist positive constants a and u such that M (xy) ≤ aM (x) M (y) (x, y ≥ u). By means of M , Lindenstrauss and Tzafriri [2] constructed the sequence space X |xk | `M = x ∈ w : M < ∞ for some ρ > 0 ρ n o P |xk | with the norm kxkM = inf ρ > 0 : M ρ ≤ 1 . This norm is absolutely monotone and `M is normal since M is non-decreasing. Also if M satisfies the ∆´-condition then `M is a sequence algebra. Now we give a useful inequality from classical analysis. Lemma 1.1. Let f be a function such that f 00 (x) ≥ 0 for x > 0. Then for 0<a<x<b Z x f (x) − f (a) 1 = f 0 (t)dt x−a x−a a ≤ f 0 (x) Z b 1 f 0 (t)dt ≤ b−x x f (b) − f (x) = . b−x A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 5 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au Hence f (x) ≤ b−x x−a f (a) + f (b) b−a b−a [7]. Apply this to the function f (x) = − ln x with θ = (b − x)/(b − a). Then for all a, b positive numbers and 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1, we have (1.1) aθ b1−θ ≤ aθ + (1 − θ)b. Next, we give a lemma associated with the theorems in Section 2. Lemma 1.2. a) Let F be a normal sequence algebra, u = (un ) ∈ F and p ≥ 1. Then up = (upn ) ∈ F . b) If F is a normal sequence space, k·kF is an absolutely monotone seminorm on F and u = (un ) ∈ F then |u| = (|un |) ∈ F and k|u|kF = kukF . Proof. a) We define two sequences a = (an ) and b = (bn ) such that ( ( un if |un | ≥ 1 0 if |un | ≥ 1 an = and bn = . 0 if |un | < 1 un if |un | < 1 So un = an + bn and upn = apn + bpn . Obviously, a, b ∈ F . Since p < [p] + 1, we have |an |p ≤ |an |[p]+1 , A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 6 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au where [p] denotes the integer part of p. Since F is a sequence algebra, the sequence a[p]+1 is a member of F by induction, and so ap ∈ F . Furthermore, since F is normal and |bn |p ≤ |bn |, we have bp ∈ F . Hence up ∈ F . b) It is a direct consequence of normality and absolute monotonicity. A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 7 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au 2. Generalizations Our main results are the following theorems which state the extensions of Hölder and Minkowski inequalities. Taking F = `1 and k·kF = k·k1 in both Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 2.2, we get classical versions of these inequalities. Moreover, if we change the choices of F and k·kF then we can obtain many different inequalities corresponding to these generalizations. Therefore, the following results are quite productive. Theorem 2.1. Let F be a sequence algebra and k·kF be an absolutely monotone seminorm on F . Suppose u = (un ) , v = (vn ) ∈ F . Then 1/p 1/p kuvkF ≤ kup kF kv q kF , where p > 1 and 1 p + 1 q Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak = 1. Proof. Assume that xn = |un |p and yn = |vn |q . It is immediate from Lemma 1.2(a) that x = (xn ) and y = (yn ) are members of F . Let M = kxkF and N = kykF . Then it follows from inequality (1.1) that for each n, x θ y 1−θ xn yn n n ≤θ + (1 − θ) M N M N as 0 ≤ θ ≤ 1. Because k·kF is an absolutely monotone seminorm we write x xn θ yn 1−θ yn n ≤ θ + (1 − θ) . M N M N F F Hence A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities θ 1−θ 1 xn yn ≤ 1, F M θ N 1−θ Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 8 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au so that θ 1−θ xn yn ≤ k(xn )kθ k(yn )k1−θ . F F F Setting θ = 1/p, we get 1/p 1/q xn yn ≤ k(xn )k1/p k(yn )k1/q , F F F and putting xn = |un |p and yn = |vn |q , we obtain 1/p 1/q k(|un vn |)kF ≤ k(|un |p )kF k(|vn |q )kF . So, it follows from Lemma 1.2(b) that A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak kv q k1/q . kuvkF ≤ kup k1/p F F Title Page Theorem 2.2. Let F be a normal sequence algebra and k·kF be an absolutely monotone seminorm on F . Then for every u = (un ) , v = (vn ) ∈ F and p ≥ 1, 1/p 1/p 1/p k(u + v)p kF ≤ kup kF + kv p kF , p Contents JJ J II I Go Back p where (u + v) = ((un + vn ) ). Proof. For p = 1, it is obvious. Let p > 1. Proceeding with the manner of the proof in the classical version, we write (u + v)p = u (u + v)p−1 + v (u + v)p−1 . Close Quit Page 9 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au It follows from Theorem 2.1 that 1/q 1/q 1/p 1/p k(u + v)p kF ≤ kup kF (u + v)(p−1)q + kv p kF (u + v)(p−1)q F F 1/q 1/p 1/p = kup kF + kv p kF (u + v)(p−1)q , F where k(u + 1 1 + = 1. Hence, dividing the first and last terms by (u p q 1/q v)p kF , we obtain the inequality. 1/q (p−1)q + v) = F Example 2.1. Taking F = `∞ and k·kF = k·k∞ in both Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 2.2, we obtain the inequalities sup|un vn | ≤ n p1 1q q sup|un | · sup|vn | p n A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page n Contents and p p1 sup|un + vn | p1 p1 p p ≤ sup|un | + sup|vn | , n n n where u, v ∈ `∞ and p1 + 1q = 1 as p > 1. Hence, in fact, these elementary inequalities are extended Hölder and Minkowski inequalities respectively. Example 2.2. Now put F = `M and k·kF = k·kM in Theorem 2.1 and Theorem 2.2, where M satisfies the ∆´-condition. In this case, we write the inequalities inf ρ > 0 : X M |xk yk | ρ ≤1 JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 10 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au p1 X |xk |p ≤ inf ρ > 0 : M ≤1 ρ 1q X |yk |q · inf ρ > 0 : ≤1 M ρ and p1 X |xk + yk |p inf ρ > 0 : M ≤1 ρ p1 X |xk |p ≤ inf ρ > 0 : M ≤1 ρ p1 X |yk |p + inf ρ > 0 : ≤1 M ρ A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents as Hölder and Minkowski inequalities respectively. JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 11 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au 3. An Application Now let us introduce the class F (X, λ, p) of vector-valued sequence spaces which includes the space c0 (X, λ, p) investigated in [6] with some linear topological properties. Theorem 2.2 makes it possible to improve some topological properties of the space F (X, λ, p). Let F be an AK-BK normal sequence algebra such that the norm k·kF of F is absolutely monotone and X be a seminormed space. Also suppose that λ = (λk ) is a non-zero complex sequence and p = (pk ) is a sequence of strictly positive real numbers. Define the vector-valued sequence class F (X, λ, p) = {x ∈ s(X) : ([q (λk xk )]pk ) ∈ F } , A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak where q is the seminorm of X and s(X) is the most general X-termed sequence space. F (X, λ, p) becomes a linear space under natural co-ordinatewise vector operations if and only if p ∈ `∞ (see Lascarides [1]). Taking F = c0 and X as a Banach space we get the space c0 (X, λ, p) in [6]. Lemma 3.1. Let 0 < tk ≤ 1. If ak and bk are complex numbers then we have |ak + bk |tk ≤ |ak |tk + |bk |tk Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back [5, p.5]. Lemma 3.2. Let (X, q) be a seminormed space, and F a normal AK-BK space with an absolutely monotone norm k·kF . Suppose p = (pk ) is a bounded sequence of positive real numbers. Then the map n X x en : [0, ∞) → [0, ∞) ; x en (u) = [uq (λk xk )]pk ek k=1 F Close Quit Page 12 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au defined by means of x = (xk ) ∈ F (X, λ, p) and a positive integer n, is continuous, where (ek ) is a unit vector basis of F . Proof. Since the norm function is continuous it is sufficient to show that the mappings defined by gk : [0, ∞) → F, gk (u) = [uqk (λk xk )]pk ek are continuous. Let ui → 0 (i → ∞), then gk (ui ) → (0, 0, . . .) (i → ∞) for each k. Hence, each gk is sequential continuous (it is equivalent to continuity here). A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Theorem 3.3. Define the function g : F (X, λ, p) −→ R by 1/M g (x) = k([q (λk xk )]pk )kF Title Page , where M = max (1, sup pn ). Then g is a paranorm on F (X, λ, p). Proof. It is obvious that g(θ) = 0 and g(−x) = g(x). From the absolute monotonicity of k·kF , Lemma 3.1 and Theorem 2.2, we get M 1/M pk /M g(x + y) = [q (λk xk + λk yk )] F M 1/M pk /M pk /M ≤ [q (λk xk )] + [q (λk yk )] F pk ≤ k([q (λk xk )] = g(x) + g(y) 1/M )kF pk + k([q (λk yk )] 1/M )kF Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 13 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au for x, y ∈ F (X, λ, p). To show the continuity of scalar multiplication assume that (µn ) is a sequence of scalars such that |µn − µ| → 0 (n → ∞) and g (xn − x) → 0 (n → ∞) for an arbitrary sequence (xn ) ⊂ F (X, λ, p). We shall show that g (µn xn − µx) → 0 (n → ∞) . Say τn = |µn − µ| and we get 1/M g (µn xn − µx) = k([q (λk (µn xnk − µxk ))]pk )kF A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities 1/M = k([q (λk (µn xnk − µn xk + µn xk − µxk ))]pk )kF n 1/M (λk xk )] )kF oM 1/M pk /M (λk (xnk Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak pk − xk ))) + τn q ≤ k([|µ | q n pk /M ≤ + [B (k, n)] [A (k, n)] , F (λk (xnk where A (k, n) = Rq − xk )), B (k, n) = τn q (λk xk ) and R = n max {1, sup |µ |}. Again by Theorem 2.2 we can write 1/M 1/M g (µn xn − µx) ≤ k(A (k, n))kF + k(B (k, n))kF pk 1/M A 1/M + k(B (k, n))kF ≤ R R F 1/M = Rg(xn − x) + k(B (k, n))kF n . Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 14 of 20 1/M (k, n))kF Since g (x − x) → 0 (n → ∞) we must show that k(B → 0 (n → ∞). We can find a positive integer n0 such that 0 ≤ τn ≤ 1 for n ≥ n0 . J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au Say tk = [q (λk xk )]pk . Since t = (tk ) ∈ F and F is an AK-space, we get m ∞ X X tk ek = [q (λk xk )]pk ek → 0 (m → ∞) , t − k=1 F k=m+1 F where (ek ) is a unit vector basis of F . Therefore, for every ε > 0 there exists a positive integer m0 such that 1 ∞ X M ε [q (λk xk )]pk ek < . 2 k=m +1 0 A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities F For n ≥ n0 write [(τn q (λk xk ))]pk ≤ [f (q (λk xk ))]pk for each k. On the other hand, we can write 1 1 ∞ ∞ X M X M ε pk pk [τn q (λk xk )] ek ≤ [q (λk xk )] ek < . 2 k=m +1 k=m +1 0 0 F F Now, from Lemma 3.2, the function m 0 X x em0 (u) = [(uq (λk xk ))]pk ek k=1 F is continuous. Hence, there exists a δ (0 < δ < 1) such that x em0 (u) ≤ ε M 2 , Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 15 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au for 0 < u < δ. Also we can find a number ∆ such that τn < δ for n > ∆. So for n > ∆ we have m 0 X ε (e xm0 (τn ))1/M = [τn q (λk xk )]pk ek < , 2 k=1 F and eventually we get 1/M k([τn q (λk xk )]pk )kF 1 ∞ X M pk [τn q (λk xk )] ek = k=1 F 1 m ∞ 0 M X X pk pk = [τn q (λk xk )] ek + [τn q (λk xk )] ek k=m0 +1 k=1 F m 1 1 ∞ 0 X M X M ≤ [τn q (λk xk )]pk ek + [τn q (λk xk )]pk ek k=1 F k=m0 +1 ε ε < + = ε. 2 2 F A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back 1/M This shows that k(B (k, n))kF Close → 0 (n → ∞). Theorem 3.4. Let (X, q) be a complete seminormed space. Then F (X, λ, p) is complete with the paranorm g. If X is a Banach space then F (X, λ, p) is an FK-space, in particular, an AK-space. Quit Page 16 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au Proof. Let (xn ) be a Cauchy sequence in F (X, λ, p). Therefore 1/M pk g(xn − xm ) = k([q (λk (xnk − xm k ))] )kF →0 (m, n → ∞) , also, since F is an FK-space, for each k pk [q (λk (xnk − xm →0 k ))] (m, n → ∞) and so |λk | q (xnk − xm k ) → 0 (m, n → ∞). Because of the completeness of X, there exists an xk ∈ X such that q (xnk − xk ) → 0 (n → ∞) for each k. Define the sequence x = (xk ) with these points. Now we can determine a sequence ηk ∈ c0 (0 < ηkn ≤ 1) such that A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak [|λk | q (xnk − xk )]pk ≤ ηkn [q (λk xnk )]pk (3.1) Title Page since q (xnk − xk ) → 0. On the other hand, Contents [q (λk xk )]pk ≤ D {[q (λk (xnk − xk ))]pk + [q (λk xnk )]pk } , where D = max 1, 2H−1 ; H = sup pk . From (3.1) we have [q (λk xk )]pk ≤ D (1 + ηkn ) [q (λk xnk )]pk ≤ 2D [q (λk xnk )]pk . JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit So we get x ∈ F (X, λ, p). Now, for each ε > 0 there exist n0 (ε) such that [g(xn − xm )]M < εM Page 17 of 20 for n, m > n0 . J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au Also, we may write from the AK-property of F that m ∞ 0 X X pk m m pk n n [q (λk (xk − xk ))] ek ≤ [q (xk − xk )] ek k=1 k=1 F F n = g(x − xm )M . Letting m → ∞ we have m m 0 0 X X p p m n n k k [q (λk (xk − xk ))] ek → [q (λk (xk − xk ))] ek k=1 F <ε k=1 M F for n > n0 . Since (ek ) is a Schauder basis for F , m 0 X [q (λk (xnk − xk ))]pk ek → k([q (λk (xnk − xk ))]pk )kF k=1 F < εM as m0 → ∞. Then we get g(xn − x) < ε for n > n0 so g(xn − x) → 0 (n → ∞). For the rest of the theorem; we can say immediately that F (X, λ, p) is a Frechet space, because X is a Banach space. Also, the projections P̂k : F (X, λ, p) −→ X; P̂k (x) = xk are continuous since Pk = |λk | q ◦ P̂k for each k. Where Pk ’s are coordinate mappings on F and they are continuous since F is an FK-space. A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 18 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au Let x[n] be the nth section of an element x of F (X, λ, p). We must prove that x[n] → x in F (X, λ, p) for each x ∈ F (X, λ, p). Indeed, g x − x[n] = g (0, 0, . . . , 0, xn+1 , xn+2 , . . .) ∞ X pk = [q (λk xk )] ek → 0 k=n+1 F since F is an AK-space. Hence F (X, λ, p) is an AK-space. A Generalization of Hölder and Minkowski Inequalities Yılmaz Yilmaz, M. Kemal Özdemir and İhsan Solak Title Page Contents JJ J II I Go Back Close Quit Page 19 of 20 J. Ineq. Pure and Appl. Math. 7(5) Art. 193, 2006 http://jipam.vu.edu.au References [1] C.G. LASCARIDES, A study of certain sequence spaces of Maddox and a generalization of a theorem of Iyer, Pacific J. Math., 38 (1971), 487–500. [2] J. LINDENSTRAUSS AND L. TZAFRIRI On Orlicz sequence space, Israel J. Math., 10 (1971), 379–390. [3] P.K. KAMTHAN AND M. 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