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Fedor Petrov
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Another try, now I claim that the inequality holds.

For a random variable $X$, denote $\|X\|=(\mathbb E |X|^\sigma)^{1/\sigma}$. It is indeed a norm.

Then $$ \|X_1+\ldots+X_n\|\leqslant \|X_1+\ldots+X_{n-1}\|+\|X_n\|\leqslant \|X_1+\ldots+X_{n-1}\|+1. $$

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