I want to prove the inequality $$ |x-y|^p \le \frac{p}{2}\big|x-y\big|\;\big(x^{p-1}+y^{p-1}\big) $$ if $p \ge 1$. For the case $p$ is an integer, it's easy to do, but I have no idea when $p$ is not an integer! Thank you for the answer.