Problem

Source: St. Petersburg MO 2001, 10th grade P6

Tags: inequalities, GCD, number theory, algebra, greatest common divisor, least common multiple



For any positive integers $n>m$ prove the following inequality: $$[m,n]+[m+1,n+1]\geq 2m\sqrt{n}$$As usual, [x,y] denotes the least common multiply of $x,y$ Proposed by A. Golovanov