Background

I reviewed my old post on power means inequalities.

Problem

At the 71st line of that post, I carelessly put a \| instead of |, causing it to be interpreted as rVert.

As the MathJax tutorial on Math Meta SE pointed out, the correct $\rm \LaTeX$ syntax for | in {} denoting a set should be \mid. However, the | in {} doesn’t match the fraction.

$$\max\left\{\frac{1}{a_i} \mid i = 1,\dots,k \right\}$$

gives

$$\max\left\{\frac{1}{a_i} \mid i = 1,\dots,k \right\}$$

Goal

I need to change it back to

$$\max\left\{ \frac{1}{a_i} \,\middle|\, i = 1,\dots,k \right\}$$

Attempt

Following a comment by asmeurer, I tried

$$\max\left\{\frac{1}{a_i} \middle| i = 1,\dots,k \right\}$$

which gives

$$\max\left\{\frac{1}{a_i} \middle| i = 1,\dots,k \right\}$$

The horizontal spacing around | isn’t correct.

$\max\left\{ \frac{1}{a_i} \,\middle|\, i = 1,\dots,k \right\} \quad \text{(right)} \\ \max\left\{\frac{1}{a_i} \middle| i = 1,\dots,k \right\} \quad \text{(wrong)}$

Solution

See the external link of this post by clicking the title of this post.

Lessons learnt

1. Avoid using \| as \lVert or \rVert.
2. Use \providecommand{\norm}[1]{\lVert#1\rVert} for denoting norms in $\rm \LaTeX$ documents. Similar commands can be used for absolute values and sets.
3. Avoid using fractions in superscripts and subscripts.