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by beyondCritics
696 days ago
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I like the idea to use super additivity, but in a proof you cannot creatively extend T to the reals, this should be fixed. Here is the slightly mopped up proof i had in mind, when i posted my hints below: Let be r>=1 and 0<a(i) for all 1<=i<=r and 1/a(1) + ... + 1/a(n) =: s < 1.
Then a(i) > 1 for all 1 <= i <= r.
Let be c > 0 and
T(0) := 0
T(n) := c \* n + T(floor(n/a(1))) + ... + T(floor(n/a(r)))
Then T(n) <= b * n for all n with b := c/(1-s) > 0 !
Proof by induction:
"n=0" :
The statement holds trivially.
"k->n":
Let n>=1 and assume the statement holds for all 0<=k<n.
Now since a(i)>1 we have floor(n/a(i)) <= n/a(i) < n. By the induction hypothesis therefore
T(floor(n/a(i))) <= b * floor(n/a(i)) <= b * n/a(i).
Apply this to get:
T(n) = c * n + T(floor(n/a(1))) + ... + T(floor(n/a(r)))
<= c * n + b * n/a(1) + ... + b * n/a(r)
= (c + b*s) * n
= b * n.
Hence T(n) <= b * n.
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