In mathematics, Hanner's inequalities are results in the theory of L<sup>p</sup> spaces. Their proof was published in 1956 by Olof Hanner. They provide a simpler way of proving the uniform convexity of L<sup>p</sup> spaces for p â (1, +âÂÂ) than the approach proposed by James A. Clarkson in 1936.
Let f, g â L<sup>p</sup>(E), where E is any measure space. If p â [1, 2], then
The substitutions F = f + g and G = f − g yield the second of Hanner's inequalities:
For p â [2, +âÂÂ) the inequalities are reversed (they remain non-strict).
Note that for the inequalities become equalities which are both the parallelogram rule.