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Algebra Difficulty 6.3 National olympiad Prove it

Example 1.3.3. If a,b,ca, b, c are the side lengths of a triangle, then
4(ab+bc+ca)9+a2+c2c2+b2+c2+b2b2+a2+b2+a2a2+c24\left(\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{a}\right) \geq 9+\frac{a^{2}+c^{2}}{c^{2}+b^{2}}+\frac{c^{2}+b^{2}}{b^{2}+a^{2}}+\frac{b^{2}+a^{2}}{a^{2}+c^{2}}

Solution

SOLUTION. The inequality can be rewritten in the following form
4(ab)2ab+4(ca)(cb)ac(a2b2)2(a2+c2)(c2+b2)+(c2a2)(c2b2)(a2+b2)(a2+c2)\frac{4(a-b)^{2}}{a b}+\frac{4(c-a)(c-b)}{a c} \geq \frac{\left(a^{2}-b^{2}\right)^{2}}{\left(a^{2}+c^{2}\right)\left(c^{2}+b^{2}\right)}+\frac{\left(c^{2}-a^{2}\right)\left(c^{2}-b^{2}\right)}{\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)\left(a^{2}+c^{2}\right)}

WLOG, we may assume c=min(a,b,c)c=\min (a, b, c). Then it's not too difficult to show that
1ac(c+a)(c+b)(a2+b2)(c2+b2)4ab(a+b)2(a2+c2)(b2+c2)\begin{array}{l} \frac{1}{a c} \geq \frac{(c+a)(c+b)}{\left(a^{2}+b^{2}\right)\left(c^{2}+b^{2}\right)} \\ \frac{4}{a b} \geq \frac{(a+b)^{2}}{\left(a^{2}+c^{2}\right)\left(b^{2}+c^{2}\right)} \end{array}
and the proof is completed. Equality holds for a=b=ca=b=c.

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