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Muirhead's InequalityIn mathematics, Muirhead's inequality generalizes the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means. Two preliminary definitions The "a-mean" For any real vector -
define the "a-mean" a of nonnegative real numbers x1, ..., xn by -
where the sum extends over all permutations σ of { 1, ..., n }. In case a = (1, 0, ..., 0), this is just the ordinary arithmetic mean of x1, ..., xn. In case a = (1/n, ..., 1/n), it is the geometric mean of x1, ..., xn. Doubly stochastic matrices An n × n matrix P is doubly stochastic precisely if both P and its transpose PT are stochastic matrices. A stochastic matrix is a square matrix of nonnegative real entries in which the sum of the entries in each column is 1. Thus, a doubly stochastic matrix is a square matric of nonnegative real entries in which the sum of the entries in each row and the sum of the entries in each column is 1. The inequality Muirhead's inequality states that a ≤ b for all xi ≥ 0 if and only if there is some doubly stochastic matrix P for which a = Pb. The proof makes use of the fact that every doubly stochastic matrix is a weighted average of permutation matrices. Another equivalent condition Because of the symmetry of the sum, no generality is lost by sorting the exponents into decreasing order: -
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Then the existence of a doubly stochastic matrix P such that a = Pb is equivalent to the following system of inequalities: -
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(The last one is an equality; the others are weak inequalities.) Reference Combinatorial Theory by John N. Guidi, based on lectures given by Gian-Carlo Rota in 1998, MIT Copy Technology Center, 2002.
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