by redmafiya » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:46 am
The proof for the first inequality is as follows:
[tex]\frac{a}{b^{2}+1}[/tex]
[tex]=\frac{a(b^{2}+1)-ab^{2}}{b^{2}+1}[/tex]
[tex]=a-\frac{ab^{2}}{b^{2}+1}[/tex]
[tex]\ge a-\frac{1}{2}ab[/tex]
Similarly
[tex]\frac{b}{c^{2}+1}\ge b-\frac{1}{2}bc[/tex]
[tex]\frac{c}{a^{2}+1}\ge c-\frac{1}{2}ac[/tex]
So
[tex]\frac{a}{b^{2}+1}+\frac{b}{c^{2}+1}+\frac{c}{a^{2}+1}[/tex]
[tex]\ge a-\frac{1}{2}ab+b-\frac{1}{2}bc+c-\frac{1}{2}ac[/tex]
[tex]=a+b+c-\frac{1}{2}(ab+bc+ac)[/tex]
[tex]\ge a+b+c-\frac{1}{2}\cdot\frac{1}{3}(a+b+c)^{2}[/tex] (chebyshev's inequality)
[tex]\ge 3-\frac{1}{2}\cdot\frac{1}{3}(3)^{2}[/tex]
[tex]\ge \frac{3}{2}[/tex]
In the same way, we can prove that the inequalities with five or more variables still hold.