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Algebra Difficulty 6.2 National olympiad Prove it

Example 7 Let a,b,ca, b, c be positive real numbers, prove that:
(a5a2+3)(b5b2+3)(c5c2+3)(a+b+c)3.\begin{aligned} & \left(a^{5}-a^{2}+3\right)\left(b^{5}-b^{2}+3\right)\left(c^{5}-c^{2}+3\right) \\ \geqslant & (a+b+c)^{3} . \end{aligned}

Solution

For xR+,x21x \in \mathbf{R}^{+}, x^{2}-1 and x31x^{3}-1 have the same sign, so
(x21)(x31)0\left(x^{2}-1\right)\left(x^{3}-1\right) \geqslant 0

which implies x5x2+3x3+2x^{5}-x^{2}+3 \geqslant x^{3}+2.
Thus, (a5a2+3)(b5b2+3)(c5c2+3)\left(a^{5}-a^{2}+3\right)\left(b^{5}-b^{2}+3\right)\left(c^{5}-c^{2}+3\right)
(a3+2)(b3+2)(c3+2)\geqslant\left(a^{3}+2\right)\left(b^{3}+2\right)\left(c^{3}+2\right)

By (7) (Hölder's inequality), we have
(a3+2)(b3+2)(c3+2)=(a3+1+1)(1+b3+1)(1+1+c3)(a+b+c)3\begin{aligned} & \left(a^{3}+2\right)\left(b^{3}+2\right)\left(c^{3}+2\right) \\ = & \left(a^{3}+1+1\right)\left(1+b^{3}+1\right)\left(1+1+c^{3}\right) \\ \geqslant & (a+b+c)^{3} \end{aligned}

Thus, the proposition is proved.

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