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Find general term

Source: China TST Quiz 2006

June 18, 2006
inductionratioinequalitieslimitalgebra unsolvedalgebra

Problem Statement

Two positive valued sequences {an}\{ a_{n}\} and {bn}\{ b_{n}\} satisfy: (a): a0=1a1a_{0}=1 \geq a_{1}, an(bn+1+bn1)=an1bn1+an+1bn+1a_{n}(b_{n+1}+b_{n-1})=a_{n-1}b_{n-1}+a_{n+1}b_{n+1}, n1n \geq 1. (b): i=1nbin32\sum_{i=1}^{n}b_{i}\leq n^{\frac{3}{2}}, n1n \geq 1. Find the general term of {an}\{ a_{n}\}.