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Monday, December 7, 2015

IMO Inequality problem

For the positive real numbers x,y and z that satisfy 1x+1y+1z=3, prove that

1x3+1+1y3+1+1z3+132.

My solution:

By AM-GM, we have x3+12xx so  1x3+112x4x. By the same token we also have 1y3+112y4y and 1z3+112z4z.

Adding the three inequalities we get:

1x3+1+1y3+1+1z3+112(1x4x+1y4y+1z4z)

Note that the following can be obtained by Cauchy–Schwarz inequality:

1x+1y+1z1+1+11x+1y+1z=31x+1y+1z

1x4x+1y4y+1z4z1x+1y+1z1x+1y+1z=3(31x+1y+1z)

Putting these pieces together, and since we're told that 1x+1y+1z=3 we see that we have proved:

1x3+1+1y3+1+1z3+112(1x4x+1y4y+1z4z)123(31x+1y+1z)32


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