Show the Schatten norm inequality $\left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _{2/3}^{2}\ge \left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _{1}^{3}$?

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I want to show the following inequality $$ \left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _{2/3}^{2}\ge \left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _{1}^{3} \tag 1 $$ where the norm is defined as $\left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _p \equiv \left[ \sum_k{\left| v_k \right|^p} \right] ^{1/p}$ and $\boldsymbol{v}$ is a vector which can satisfy $\left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _2=1$ if this condition is necessary to show the eq(1).

I've tried to use Hölder's inequality for Schatten norm but failed. I wonder if I missed something or should I use other inequality? But the Hölder's inequality is the only inequality I am familiar with for the Schatten norm.

Some more information about Hölder's inequality can be found in this post.

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Actually we don't need such complex inequalities. Instead, we only need to prove it by definition. By definition, we have $$ \left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _{2/3}^{2}=\left( \sum_k{\left| v_k \right|^{\frac{2}{3}}} \right) ^3 \\ \left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _{1}^{3}=\left( \sum_k{\left| v_k \right|} \right) ^3 $$ Hence we only need to show $$ \sum_k{\left| v_k \right|^{\frac{2}{3}}}\ge \sum_k{\left| v_k \right|} $$ Using the fact that $\left\| \boldsymbol{v} \right\| _2=1$, we have $\left| v_k \right|\le 1,\forall k$ hence $\left| v_k \right|^{\frac{2}{3}}\ge \left| v_k \right|,\forall k$ which completes the proof.