Some properties for a class of symmetric functions with applications

For x = (x ₁, x ₂, ..., x _n ) ∈ ℝ₊ ⁿ , the symmetric function ψ _n (x, r) is defined by $\psi _n (x,r) = \psi _n \left( {x_1 ,x_2 , \cdots ,x_n ;r} \right) = \sum\limits_{1 \leqslant i_1 < i_2 \cdots < i_r \leqslant n} {\prod\limits_{j = 1}^r {\frac{{1 + x_{i_j } }} {{x_{i_j } }}} } ,$\psi _n (x,r) = \psi _n \left( {x_1 ,x_2 , \cdots ,x_n ;r} \right) = \sum\limits_{1 \leqslant i_1 < i_2 \cdots < i_r \leqslant n} {\prod\limits_{j = 1}^r {\frac{{1 + x_{i_j } }} {{x_{i_j } }}} } ,