Given two integers which are greater than . are two given positive real numbers such that . For all which are not all zeroes,find the maximal value of the expression
Solution
Given two integers which are greater than 1, and two positive real numbers such that , we aim to find the maximal value of the expression
for all which are not all zeroes.
We claim that the maximum value is given by
where equality holds when if and otherwise.
To prove this, let and . It suffices to show that
Using a lemma for sums and applying Karamata's inequality, we can show that the left-hand side of the inequality can be 'smoothed' without decreasing its value, leading to the conclusion that the maximum value of is indeed .
Thus, the maximal value of the given expression is:
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