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Feb 7, 2021 at 0:20 comment added Iosif Pinelis @fedja : That is another great answer of yours! I think your inequality for $X$ and $Y$ needs to be widely known -- so, perhaps you can consider publishing it.
Feb 6, 2021 at 13:26 comment added fedja @IosifPinelis I added to my answer the endgame for your approach (and an additional question). Enjoy!
Feb 6, 2021 at 2:14 comment added fedja @inequality It surely does. Moreover, we can get a better constant factor than $1$ on the RHS though to find the best one may be quite a headache.
Feb 6, 2021 at 0:46 comment added math110 Thanks,so for my question when $n=3$ not hold for any $f?$
Feb 5, 2021 at 17:20 comment added Iosif Pinelis @fedja : Your inequality for $X$ and $Y$ is very nice!
Feb 5, 2021 at 16:22 comment added fedja You are overthinking it a bit. :-) Indeed, you can immediately reduce the problem to a 2-value case as you did. But you don't need to square anything to check the resulting inequality. An alternative (if you do not want to bother with binomial coefficients) is to generalize the statement to $E|X+Y|\ge \min(E|X|,E|Y|)$ when $EX$ and $EY$ have the same sign, prove that, and induct. I have to teach now. I'll post later unless somebody beats me to it.
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Feb 5, 2021 at 15:16 history answered Iosif Pinelis CC BY-SA 4.0