The theorem is that for any summability kernel $\{\phi_{n}\}$, if $f\in L_{p}(\mathbb{T}^{d})$, then $||f*\phi_{n} - f||_{p}\rightarrow 0$.
The step that I cannot follow is this:
$$\left\|\frac{1}{2\pi^d}\int_{[-\pi,\pi)^{d}}(f(\cdot - t) - f(\cdot))\phi_{n}(t)dt\right\|_{p}\leq\frac{1}{2\pi^d}\int_{[-\pi,\pi)^{d}}||f(\cdot - t) - f\cdot)||_{p}|\phi_{n}(t)|dt$$
I see how we could get the from the Minkowski Inequality: $$\left\|\frac{1}{2\pi^d}\int_{[-\pi,\pi)^{d}}(f(\cdot - t) - f(\cdot))\phi_{n}(t)dt\right\|_{p}\leq \frac{1}{2\pi^d}\int_{[-\pi,\pi)^{d}}\|(f(\cdot - t) - f(\cdot))\phi_{n}(t)\|_{p}dt,$$ which is not quite what the claim is, however.
Thank you once again. :)
– roo Oct 05 '11 at 00:55