TITLE: Prove $\sqrt{x^2+yz+2}+\sqrt{y^2+zx+2}+\sqrt{z^2+xy+2}\ge 6$, given $x+y+z=3$ and $x,y,z\ge0$
QUESTION [23 upvotes]: Let $x+y+z=3,x,y,z\ge 0$,show that
  $$\sqrt{x^2+yz+2}+\sqrt{y^2+zx+2}+\sqrt{z^2+xy+2}\ge 6$$


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I have seen the following problem:
$x,y,z>0,x+y+z=3$, prove that
$$\sqrt{x^2+y+2}+\sqrt{y^2+z+2}+\sqrt{z^2+x+2}\ge 6.$$
Without loss of generality we can let $x=\max{\{x,y,z\}}$
Proof: case 1
$x\ge y\ge z$
we can easily prove 
$$\sqrt{y^2+z+2}+\sqrt{z^2+x+2}\ge\sqrt{y^2+x+2}+\sqrt{z^2+z+2}$$
and
$$\sqrt{x^2+y+2}+\sqrt{y^2+x+2}\ge\sqrt{x^2+x+2}+\sqrt{y^2+y+2}$$
so we have
$$\sqrt{x^2+y+2}+\sqrt{y^2+z+2}+\sqrt{z^2+x+2}\ge \sqrt{x^2+x+2}+\sqrt{y^2+y+2}+\sqrt{z^2+z+2}.$$
Then use
$$\sqrt{x^2+x+2}\ge\dfrac{3}{4}x+\dfrac{5}{4}$$
$$\sqrt{y^2+y+2}\ge\dfrac{3}{4}y+\dfrac{5}{4}$$
$$\sqrt{z^2+z+2}\ge\dfrac{3}{4}z+\dfrac{5}{4}$$
to get the result. Whereas the case 2 when $x\ge z\ge y$ can be proved using the same methods.

Now,I have another idea: using Holder inequality
we have
$$\left(\sum\sqrt{x^2+yz+2}\right)^2\left(\sum\dfrac{x^2+2yz+9}{x^2+yz+2}\right)\ge 36^3$$
$$\Longleftrightarrow \sum\dfrac{x^2+2yz+9}{x^2+yz+2}\le 1296$$
and  the following link has some discussion about this problem
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=538230
and 
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=538752&p=3097872#p3097872
and Vasc gave the hint:
$$\sum\sqrt{8(a^2+bc+2)}\ge \sum\sqrt{(3a+b+c)^2+7}\ge 12\sqrt 2$$
How prove this hint?Thank you everyone.
and my other idea is as follows:
let $a=\min(a,b,c)$
we can prove 
$$\sqrt{b^2+ca+2}+\sqrt{c^2+ab+2}\geq \sqrt{(b+c)^2+2a(b+c)+8-(b-c)^2}\tag{1}$$
\begin{align*}
&\sqrt{a^2+bc+2}+\sqrt{(b+c)^2+2a(b+c)+8-(b-c)^2}\\
\geq &\sqrt{a^2+\frac{(b+c)^2}{4}+2}+\sqrt{(b+c)^2+2a(b+c)+8} \tag{2}
\end{align*}
Summing up
\begin{align*}
&\sum_{cyc}{\sqrt{a^2+bc+2}}\\
\geq &\sqrt{a^2+\frac{(b+c)^2}{4}+2}+\sqrt{(b+c)^2+2a(b+c)+8}\\
=&\sqrt{a^2+\frac{(3-a)^2}{4}+2}+\sqrt{(3-a)^2+2a(3-a)+8}
\end{align*}
By the way: someone said $(1)$ is wrong? why? can anyone give an example? And hopefully someone can use this method to prove this inequality? Thank you very much!

REPLY [2 votes]: Here is an explanation of Vasc's hint that you mentioned, which essentially solves the problem. Reproducing it here as:
$$\sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{8\left(x^2+ \text{yz} + 2\right)}\geq  \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{(3x+y+z)^2+7} = \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{(2x+3)^2+7}\geq  12\sqrt{2}$$
Now the last inequality follows immediately from Minkowski's inequality and $\sum x=3$, so I will focus only on the first inequality below.
The inequality $\displaystyle \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{8\left(x^2+ \text{yz} + 2\right)}\geq \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{(2x+3)^2+7}$ can be established through Schur-concavity of the vector function $f{(\color{blue}{u}}) = \sqrt{u_1}+\sqrt{u_2}+\sqrt{u_3}$. This function is symmetric and concave, hence Schur-concave.  Alternately it is not difficult to establish the condition
$$\left(u_i- u_j\right)\left(\partial _{u_i}f-\partial _{u_j}f\right) = -\frac{\left(u_i- u_j\right){}^2}{\sqrt{u_i u_j}} \leq  0.$$  
<< If you are not familiar with Schur-concave property, it should be possible to derive similar results using the lemma $\sqrt{x-\epsilon }+\sqrt{y+\epsilon }\geq  \sqrt{x}+\sqrt{y}$.  This is easily shown to hold if $x-y \ge \epsilon \ge 0$ by squaring. Using the sequence $$[x, y, z] \succ [x - u, y + u, z] \succ [x - u, 
  y + u - (v + u), z + (u + v)]$$ and applying the lemma twice, one can establish $$\sqrt{x-u}+\sqrt{y-v}+\sqrt{z+u+v}\geq  \sqrt{x}+\sqrt{y}+\sqrt{z}$$ and the conditions needed.>>
As $f{(\color{blue}{u}})$ is Schur-concave, if we have $\color{blue}{a} \text{ and } \color{blue}{b}$ two vectors such that $\color{blue}{a}$ majorizes $\color{blue}{b}$, i.e. $\color{blue}{a} \succ  \color{blue}{b} \implies f(\color{blue}{a})\leq  f(\color{blue}{b})$.    In this case we need to show that considered as vectors,
$$\left[(2x+3)^2+7,(2y+3)^2+7, (2z+3)^2+7\right] \succ \left[8\left(x^2+\text{yz}+2\right),8\left(y^2+\text{zx}+2\right), 8\left(z^2+\text{xy}+2\right)\right]$$
If $s = xy+yz+zx$, we have
$$\sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{8\left(x^2+\text{yz}+2\right)}= \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{8x^2+8\text{yz} + (x+y+z)^2+7} = \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{(3x+y+z)^2+7+ 4(2\text{yz}- \text{xy}-\text{zx})} = \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{(2x+3)^2+7+ 4(3\text{yz}-s)}$$
Let $\displaystyle a = (2x+3)^2+7, b = (2y+3)^2 + 7 \text{ and } c = (2z+3)^2+7$.  Also let $u = 4(s-3\text{yz}) \text{ and } v = 4(s-3\text{zx})$.  Now $\displaystyle x \geq  y \geq  z \Longrightarrow  \text{xy} \geq  \text{zx} \geq  \text{yz} \Longrightarrow  u \geq  0$ and $u+v \geq 0$ and the deviations are in reverse order to the ordering of $a, b, c$- hence giving the conditions needed for majorization.  It may be noted that in a crude sense, the deviations have mean $0$, and are ordered so as to bring the components "closer", hence increasing the concave function's value. 
As $[a, b, c] \succ  [a-u, b-v, c+(u+v)]$, we have $\displaystyle \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{8\left(x^2+ \text{yz} + 2\right)}\geq  \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{(2x+3)^2+7}$.  
Hope there is a simpler method to establish this.  Another possible approach could be to directly check if $\displaystyle F(x, y, z) = \sum _{\text{cyc}} \sqrt{x^2+ \text{yz} + 2}$ is Schur-convex, in which case any allowable $[x, y, z]\succ  [1, 1, 1]$ and the entire proof is done.  $F$ is symmetric, but we also need to check if $x-y)\left(\partial _xF -\partial _yF\right)\geq  0$ for this.