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
![\[\sqrt[k_1]{\frac{a_{1}^{k_1}+a_{2}^{k_1}+\cdots +a_{n}^{k_1}}{n}}\ge \sqrt[k_2]{\frac{a_{1}^{k_2}+a_{2}^{k_2}+\cdots +a_{n}^{k_2}}{n}}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/5/1/c/51ca907a73ebeaf6f520c77f7281c0c0b5f662ec.png)
which can be written more concisely as
![\[\sqrt[k_1]{\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n a_{i}^{k_1}}{n}}\ge \sqrt[k_2]{\frac{\sum\limits_{i=1}^n a_{i}^{k_2}}{n}}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/6/f/b/6fb4cbf03b94f3e494719f49c0cf2504c93add08.png)
The Power Mean Inequality follows from the fact that 
(where 
is the 
th power mean) together with Jensen's Inequality.
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