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Cauchy-Schwarz proof of Sidorenko for 3-edge path (Blakley-Roy inequality)
Is there a "Cauchy-Schwarz proof" of the following inequality?
Theorem. Given $f \colon [0,1]^2 \to [0,1]$, one has
$$
\int_{[0,1]^4} f(x,y)f(z,y)f(z,w) \, dxdydzdw \geq \left(\int_{[0,1]^2} f(x,y) \,...
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An inequality for rearrangement-style sums
The following is a holdover from my math contest days that I never got around
to solve.
We will use the notation $\left[ k\right] $ for the set $\left\{
1,2,\ldots,k\right\} $ whenever $k$ is a ...