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prove the inequality  
« on: Feb 3rd, 2011, 1:39pm »
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let x,y,z be positive numbers such that xyz=1
prove that (x5+y5+z5)2 >= 3(x7+y7+z7)
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Re: prove the inequality  
« Reply #1 on: Apr 6th, 2011, 5:59pm »
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I saw this a couple of months ago, I guess, and I  
thought sure that someone would have took some  
shots at it.
 
The inequality does indeed hold.  It is fairly involved to  
show, some algebraic artillery is helpful.
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« Reply #2 on: Sep 12th, 2011, 2:04pm »
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I think just opening the square and applying Muirhead Inequality [1] does the job.
 
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[1] https://nrich.maths.org/discus/messages/67613/Muirhead-69859.pdf
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Re: prove the inequality  
« Reply #3 on: Jan 22nd, 2012, 1:39pm »
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Following TenaliRaman's idea:
 
Let F(a,b,c) = x^a y^b z^c + x^a z^b y^c + y^a x^b z^c + y^a z^b x^c + z^a x^b y^c + z^a y^b x^c.
 
Then  
 
LHS
= (x^5+y^5+z^5)^2  
= x^10 + y^10 + z^10 + 2 (x^5 y^5 + ... )
= (1/2) F(10,0,0) + F(5,5,0).
 
and
 
RHS
= 3(x^7+y^7+z^7)  
= 3 xyz (x^7+y^7+z^7)  
= 3 (x^8 y z + y^8 x z + z^8 x y )
= (3/2) F(8,1,1)
 
Comparing the LHS and the RHS, and multiplying both sides by 2, we want to show that
 
F(10,0,0) + F(5,5,0) + F(5,5,0) >= F(8,1,1) + F(8,1,1) + F(8,1,1)
 
Muirhead's Inequality shows that F(10,0,0) >= F(8,1,1), but it does not say anything about F(5,5,0) vs F(8,1,1) since neither sequence majorizes the other. So it seems that something more is needed here than Muirhead, unless there is some more algebraic preprocessing that can be done.
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Re: prove the inequality  
« Reply #4 on: Mar 4th, 2012, 10:02am »
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This was a tough one! Without loss of generality, assume the values are named such that x >= y >= z > 0.
To show that (x5+y5+z5)2 - 3(x7+y7+z7) >= 0
(with x*y*z=1), express it as the sum of a number of terms, all of which are positive or zero:
 
xy(x - y)4(x + y)2(x2 + y2) + yz(y - z)4(y + z)2(y2 + z2) + xz(x - z)4(x + z)2(x2 + z2)
+ (x - y)2[ (2z4 - x4)2 + (2y4 - x4)2 ]/2  + (y - z)2[ (2x4 - z4)2 + (2y4 - z4)2 ]/2  
+ (x - y)(y - z)[ (2z4 - x4)2 + 3(y8 - z8) ]
 
 
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« Reply #5 on: Mar 4th, 2012, 5:50pm »
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Wow ... nice job.
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« Reply #6 on: Mar 9th, 2012, 5:34pm »
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Very nice SWF.
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