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tehno
Nov23-06, 01:55 PM
For a triangle with sides a,b,c and its corresponding circle with radius R:



\frac{a^2b^2}{c^2} +\frac{a^2c^2}{b^2}+\frac{b^2c^2}{a^2} \geq 9R^2

Office_Shredder
Nov23-06, 02:05 PM
What is the corresponding circle? Inscribed or circumscribed?

tehno
Nov23-06, 02:14 PM
Circumscribed of course (usually denoted by capital R).

tehno
Nov24-06, 11:14 AM
Anybody?
I prooved it in a long and ugly way.
I'd like to see ,if possible,an elegant proof of it.

murshid_islam
Nov29-06, 09:04 AM
Anybody?
I prooved it in a long and ugly way.
I'd like to see ,if possible,an elegant proof of it.
me too.
and tehno, can you please post your proof or at least an outline of it?

tehno
Dec2-06, 12:30 PM
me too.
and tehno, can you please post your proof or at least an outline of it?
Nothing particularly smart.
I used substitution:
R=\frac{abc}{4P}
where P is area of triangle with sides a,b,c.
I went to proove :
\frac{ab}{c^2}+\frac{ac}{b^2}+\frac{bc}{a^2}>\frac{9}{4}
which I used along the way to proove the original inequality having on mind basic triangle inequality a+b>c.
After lot of algebraic work I arrived at the original inequality.

But can we somehow make a use something more elegant like a well known :
\frac{1}{a^2+b^2+c^2}\geq \frac{1}{9R^2}

?

tehno
Dec20-06, 10:25 AM
me too.
and tehno, can you please post your proof or at least an outline of it?
It can't be possible you have a proof of it becouse the inequality is invalid!
Some things were odd and by closer inspection I found error in my proof.
The error helped me also to find an obvious counterexample when ineqality doesn't hold.Consider the triangle with following parameters:
a=b=1;c=\sqrt{3};R=1

tehno
Jan23-07, 08:18 AM
I will rewrite the expression in a trigonometric form and give a restriction.

(sin(\alpha) sin(\beta) cosec(\gamma))^2+(sin(\alpha) cosec(\beta) sin(\gamma))^2+ (cosec(\alpha) sin(\beta) sin(\gamma))^2\geq\frac{9}{4}

The restriction is the inequality holds for acute triangles.Now,when I fixed it,
proove the claim.