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Algebra Difficulty 7.3 National olympiad, round 2 Prove it

Example 2 Given positive real numbers a,b,ca, b, c satisfying
ab+bc+ca3abc.a b + b c + c a \leqslant 3 a b c .

Prove:
a2+b2a+b+b2+c2b+c+c2+a2c+a+32(a+b+b+c+c+a)\begin{array}{l} \quad \sqrt{\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}}{a+b}}+\sqrt{\frac{b^{2}+c^{2}}{b+c}}+\sqrt{\frac{c^{2}+a^{2}}{c+a}}+3 \\ \leqslant \sqrt{2}(\sqrt{a+b}+\sqrt{b+c}+\sqrt{c+a}) \end{array}

Solution

Prove that from Q2A2Q_{2} \geqslant A_{2} we get
2a+b=2aba+b12(2+a2+b2ab)2aba+b12(2+a2+b2ab)=2aba+b+a2+b2a+b\begin{aligned} & \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{a+b}=2 \sqrt{\frac{a b}{a+b}} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}\left(2+\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}}{a b}\right)} \\ \geqslant & 2 \sqrt{\frac{a b}{a+b}} \cdot \frac{1}{2}\left(\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}}{a b}}\right) \\ = & \sqrt{\frac{2 a b}{a+b}}+\sqrt{\frac{a^{2}+b^{2}}{a+b}} \end{aligned}

Similarly,
2b+c2bcb+c+b2+c2b+c2c+a2cac+a+c2+a2c+a\begin{array}{l} \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{b+c} \geqslant \sqrt{\frac{2 b c}{b+c}}+\sqrt{\frac{b^{2}+c^{2}}{b+c}} \\ \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{c+a} \geqslant \sqrt{\frac{2 c a}{c+a}}+\sqrt{\frac{c^{2}+a^{2}}{c+a}} \end{array}

From Q3H3Q_{3} \geqslant H_{3} we get
(a+b2ab)2+(b+c2bc)2+(c+a2ca)2331a+b2ab+1b+c2bc+1c+a2ca\begin{array}{c} \sqrt{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\frac{a+b}{2 a b}}\right)^{2}+\left(\sqrt{\frac{b+c}{2 b c}}\right)^{2}+\left(\sqrt{\frac{c+a}{2 c a}}\right)^{2}}{3}} \\ \geqslant \frac{3}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{\frac{a+b}{2 a b}}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{\frac{b+c}{2 b c}}}+\frac{1}{\sqrt{\frac{c+a}{2 c a}}}} \end{array}

Therefore,
2aba+b+2bcb+c+2cac+a33(a+b2ab)2+(b+c2bc)2+(c+a2ca)2=33abcab+bc+ca3.\begin{aligned} & \sqrt{\frac{2 a b}{a+b}}+\sqrt{\frac{2 b c}{b+c}}+\sqrt{\frac{2 c a}{c+a}} \\ \geqslant & 3 \sqrt{\frac{3}{\left(\sqrt{\frac{a+b}{2 a b}}\right)^{2}+\left(\sqrt{\frac{b+c}{2 b c}}\right)^{2}+\left(\sqrt{\frac{c+a}{2 c a}}\right)^{2}}} \\ = & 3 \sqrt{\frac{3 a b c}{a b+b c+c a}} \geqslant 3 . \end{aligned}

Thus, the original inequality holds.

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