Found problems: 4776
Determine all strictly increasing functions $f: \mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ satisfying $nf(f(n))=f(n)^2$ for all positive integers $n$.
[i]Carl Lian and Brian Hamrick.[/i]
Prove that the solid angle based on a given closed contour is a function of the vertex of the angle that is harmonic outside the contour.
Let $a \in \mathbb{R}$ be a parameter.
(1) Prove that the curves of $y = x^2 + (a + 2)x - 2a + 1$ pass through a fixed point; also, the vertices of these parabolas all lie on the curve of a certain parabola.
(2) If the function $x^2 + (a + 2)x - 2a + 1 = 0$ has two distinct real roots, find the value range of the larger root.
Find all continuous functions $f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that for all real $x$ we have
\[f(x)=f\left(x^{2}+\frac{x}{3}+\frac{1}{9}\right). \]
Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{Q}^{\plus{}} \mapsto \mathbb{Q}^{\plus{}}$ such that:
\[ f(x) \plus{} f(y) \plus{} 2xy f(xy) \equal{} \frac {f(xy)}{f(x\plus{}y)}.\]
Let $G=G(V,E)$ be a simple graph with vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$. Suppose $|V|=n$. A map $f:\,V\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ is called good, if $f$ satisfies the followings:
(1) $\sum_{v\in V} f(v)=|E|$;
(2) color arbitarily some vertices into red, one can always find a red vertex $v$ such that $f(v)$ is no more than the number of uncolored vertices adjacent to $v$.
Let $m(G)$ be the number of good maps. Prove that if every vertex in $G$ is adjacent to at least one another vertex, then $n\leq m(G)\leq n!$.
Determine the radius of a sphere $S$ that passes through the centroids of each face of a given tetrahedron $T$ inscribed in a unit sphere with center $O$. Also, determine the distance from $O$ to the center of $S$ as a function of the edges of $T.$
Determine all functions $ f$ defined on the set of rational numbers that take rational values for which
\[ f(2f(x) \plus{} f(y)) \equal{} 2x \plus{} y,
\]
for each $ x$ and $ y$.
Let $S = \{1,2,3,4,5\}$. Find the number of functions $f : S \to S$ such that $f ^{50}(x)= x$ for all $x \in S$.
Let $ f$ be a strictly increasing, continuous function mapping $ I=[0,1]$ onto itself. Prove that the following inequality holds for all pairs $ x,y \in I$: \[ 1-\cos (xy) \leq \int_0^xf(t) \sin (tf(t))dt + \int_0^y f^{-1}(t) \sin (tf^{-1}(t)) dt .\]
[i]Zs. Pales[/i]
Let P be an interior point of a regular n-gon $ A_1 A_2 ...A_n$, the lines $ A_i P$ meet the regular n-gon at another point $ B_i$, where $ i\equal{}1,2,...,n$. Prove that sums of all $ PA_i\geq$ sum of all $ PB_i$.
Determine all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that satisfy $$(f(a)-f(b))(f(b)-f(c))(f(c)-f(a)) = f(ab^2+bc^2+ca^2) - f(a^2b+b^2c+c^2a)$$for all real numbers $a$, $b$, $c$.
[i]Proposed by Ankan Bhattacharya, USA[/i]
Let $ f:[0,\infty )\longrightarrow\mathbb{R} $ a bounded and periodic function with the property that
$$ |f(x)-f(y)|\le |\sin x-\sin y|,\quad\forall x,y\in[0,\infty ) . $$
Show that the function $ [0,\infty ) \ni x\mapsto x+f(x) $ is monotone.
Let $ U\subset\mathbb R^n$ be an open set, and let $ L: U\times\mathbb R^n\to\mathbb R$ be a continuous, in its second variable first order positive homogeneous, positive over $ U\times (\mathbb R^n\setminus\{0\})$ and of $ C^2$-class Langrange function, such that for all $ p\in U$ the Gauss-curvature of the hyper surface
\[ \{ v\in\mathbb R^n \mid L(p,v) \equal{} 1 \}\]
is nowhere zero. Determine the extremals of $ L$ if it satisfies the following system
\[ \sum_{k \equal{} 1}^n y^k\partial_k\partial_{n \plus{} i}L \equal{} \sum_{k \equal{} 1}^n y^k\partial_i\partial_{n \plus{} k} L \qquad (i\in\{1,\dots,n\})\]
of partial differetial equations, where $ y^k(u,v) : \equal{} v^k$ for $ (u,v)\in U\times\mathbb R^k$, $ v \equal{} (v^1,\dots,v^k)$.
Let $ \{\phi_n(x) \}$ be a sequence of functions belonging to $ L^2(0,1)$ and having norm less that $ 1$ such that for any
subsequence $ \{\phi_{n_k}(x) \}$ the measure of the set \[ \{x \in (0,1) : \;|\frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum _{k=1}^N \phi_{n_k}(x)| \geq y\ \}\] tends to $ 0$ as $ y$ and $ N$ tend to infinity. Prove that $ \phi_n$ tends to $ 0$ weakly in the function space $ L^2(0,1).$
[i]F. Moricz[/i]
Let $ f \ne 0$ be a polynomial with real coefficients. Define the sequence $ f_{0}, f_{1}, f_{2}, \ldots$ of polynomials by $ f_{0}= f$ and $ f_{n+1}= f_{n}+f_{n}'$ for every $ n \ge 0$. Prove that there exists a number $ N$ such that for every $ n \ge N$, all roots of $ f_{n}$ are real.
Prove that for all $X > 1$, there exists a triangle whose sides have lengths $P_1(X) = X^4+X^3+2X^2+X+1, P_2(X) = 2X^3+X^2+2X+1$, and $P_3(X) = X^4-1$. Prove that all these triangles have the same greatest angle and calculate it.
Solve the equation $|x^2 -1|+ |x^2 - 4| = mx$ as a function of the parameter $m$. Which pairs $(x,m)$ of integers satisfy this equation?
Let $n$ and $r$ two positive integers. It is wanted to make $r$ subsets $A_1,\ A_2,\dots,A_r$ from the set $\{0,1,\cdots,n-1\}$ such that all those subsets contain exactly $k$ elements and such that, for all integer $x$ with $0\leq{x}\leq{n-1}$ there exist $x_1\in{}A_1,\ x_2\in{}A_2 \dots,x_r\in{}A_r$ (an element of each set) with $x=x_1+x_2+\cdots+x_r$.
Find the minimum value of $k$ in terms of $n$ and $r$.
Let \[f(x)=\dfrac{1}{1-\dfrac{1}{1-x}}\,.\] Compute $f^{2016}(2016)$, where $f$ is composed upon itself $2016$ times.
What is the maximum number of points of intersection of the graphs of two different fourth degree polynomial functions $ y \equal{} p(x)$ and $ y \equal{} q(x)$, each with leading coefficient $ 1$?
$ \textbf{(A)}\ 1 \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 3 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 4 \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 8$
Let $f : N \to N$ be a strictly increasing function such that $f(f(n))= 3n$, for all $n \in N$. Find $f(2010)$.
Note: $N = \{0,1,2,...\}$
Let $\mathbb{N}=\{1,2,\ldots\}$. Find all functions $f: \mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ such that for all $m,n\in \mathbb{N}$ the number $f^2(m)+f(n)$ is a divisor of $(m^2+n)^2$.
Find all pairs $(x, y)$ of real numbers such that
\[y^2 - [x]^2 = 19.99 \text{ and } x^2 + [y]^2 = 1999\]
where $f(x)=[x]$ is the floor function.
Compute the number of real numbers $t$ such that \[t = 50 \sin(t - \lfloor t \rfloor).\] Here $\lfloor \cdot\rfloor$ denotes the greatest integer function.
[i]Proposed by David Altizio[/i]