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Enumerative combinatorics, graph theory, order theory, posets, matroids, designs and other discrete structures. It also includes algebraic, analytic and probabilistic combinatorics.

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Is Cauchy induction used for proofs other than for AM–GM?

Another inequality can be proved by Cauchy induction :$$\prod_{i=1}^n(x_0+x_i)\geqslant\left(x_0+\prod_{i=1}^nx_i^{1/n}\right)^n\quad\text{for all}\quad n=1,2,...\;\text{and}\; x_0,...,x_n\geqslant0. …
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Is Cauchy induction used for proofs other than for AM–GM?

The proof by Cauchy induction of the arithmetic/geometric-mean inequality is well known. I am looking for a further theorem whose proof is much neater by this method than otherwise.
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