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HMMT 2014 A9

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Given that a,ba, b, and cc are complex numbers satisfying

a2+ab+b2=1+ib2+bc+c2=−2c2+ca+a2=1,\begin{aligned} a^{2}+a b+b^{2} & =1+i \\ b^{2}+b c+c^{2} & =-2 \\ c^{2}+c a+a^{2} & =1, \end{aligned}

compute (ab+bc+ca)2(a b+b c+c a)^{2}. (Here, i=−1i=\sqrt{-1}.)

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\frac{-11-4 i}{3}

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