2023-09 Permuted sums of reciprocals

Let \(\mathbb{S}_n\) be the set of all permutations of \([n]=\{1,\dots, n\}\). For positive real numbers \(d_1,\dots, d_n\), prove \[ \sum_{\sigma\in \mathbb{S}_n} \frac{1}{ d_{\sigma(1)}(d_{\sigma(1)}+d_{\sigma(2)}) \dots (d_{\sigma(1)}+\dots + d_{\sigma(n)}) } = \frac{1}{d_1\dots d_n}.\]

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