Problem

Source: Kyiv City MO 2023 Round 1, Problem 8.3

Tags: geometry



A hedgehog is a circle without its boundaries. The diameter of the hedgehog is the diameter of the corresponding circle. We say that the hedgehog sits at the at the point where the center of the circle is located. We are given a triangle with sides $a, b, c$, with hedgehogs sitting at its vertices. It is known that inside the triangle there is a point from which you can reach any side of the triangle by walking along a straight line without hitting any hedgehog. What is the largest possible sum of the diameters of these hedgehogs? Proposed by Oleksiy Masalitin