# How to show $|f|_{p}\rightarrow |f|_{\infty}$? [duplicate]

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Limit of $L^p$ norm

Assume $|f|_{r}<\infty$ for some $r<\infty$. Prove that $$|f|_{p}\rightarrow |f|_{\infty}$$ as $p\rightarrow \infty$.

I am stuck in the situation that $|f|_{p}<\infty$ for all $r<p<\infty$, but $|f|_{\infty}=\infty$ nevertheless. Could this happen? Imagine $f^{-1}(n,n+1)$ has measure $\frac{1}{n^{n}}$, for example. Then $|f|_{p}$ exists for any $p$, but $|f|_{\infty}=\infty$ nevertheless. However, I do not know how to show $f_{p}$ must be monotonely increasing in this case.

Could $f_{p}$ be fluctuating while $|f|_{\infty}=\infty$? I have proved that for $r<p<s$, $|f|_{p}<\max (|f|_{r},|f|_{s})$. But this does not help to show $|f|_{p}$ does not fluctuate.

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## marked as duplicate by David Mitra, Martin Argerami, Henry T. Horton, TMM, Davide GiraudoDec 24 '12 at 20:35

Could you write down the definition of $\vert f \vert_{\infty}$ in your post? –  user17762 Dec 24 '12 at 18:40
The usual definition that $f^{-1}(c,\infty)$ has measure 0, and $c$ is the inf of all such values possible. –  Bombyx mori Dec 24 '12 at 18:41
I am sure this is a duplicate question, although cannot find it now. –  sdcvvc Dec 24 '12 at 18:42
This is from Rudin, so will not be surprising if it is a duplicate. –  Bombyx mori Dec 24 '12 at 18:42
See this post. –  David Mitra Dec 24 '12 at 18:47

Suppose $|f|_{\infty}=a$, then $(r,a)\in E$ and by the continuity of $\phi$ we proved the statement. So we need to prove this under the hypothesis $|f|_{\infty}=\infty$. We have two cases:
(1) $|f|_{p}<\infty,\forall p<\infty$. Then we need to show $|f|_{p}\rightarrow \infty$ as $p\rightarrow \infty$. (2) There exist some $p>r$ such that $|f|_{p}=\infty$. We need to show $\forall q>p$, $|f|_{q}=\infty$ as well.
Now (2) is straightforward since if $|f|_{q}<\infty$, then $p\in [r,q]$ implies $|f|_{p}<\infty$ as well. This contradicts with our hypothesis. So it suffice to prove (1). But Davide already showed via a clever argument that $\lim \inf |f|_{p}\ge |f|_{\infty}$. So this force $\lim \inf |f|_{p}=\infty$ as well.