Sums of norm spheres are norm shells and lower triangle inequalities are sharp
Abstract
The statements in the title are explained and proved, as a little exercise in elementary normed vector space theory at the level of Chapter 5 of Dieudonn\'e's "Foundations of Mathematical Analysis". A connection to recent moment bounds for submartingales is sketched.
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