Found problems: 313
Let $f : N\to N$ such that $$f(1) = 0\,\, , \,\,f(3n) = 2f(n) + 2\,\, , \,\,f(3n-1) = 2f(n) + 1\,\, , \,\,f(3n-2) = 2f(n).$$ Determine the smallest value of $n$ so that $f (n) = 2014.$
Find all functions $f$ which are defined on all non-negative real numbers, take nonnegative real values only, and satisfy the condition $x \cdot f(y) + y\cdot f(x) = f(x) \cdot f(y) \cdot (f(x) + f(y))$ for all non-negative real numbers $x, y$.
Define $f : \mathbb{R}^+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ as the strictly increasing function such that
$$f(\sqrt{xy})=\frac{f(x)+f(y)}{2}$$ for all positive real numbers $x,y$. Prove that there are some positive real numbers $a$ where $f(a)<0$.
[i] (PP-nine) [/i]
Find all non-constant functions $f : Q^+ \to Q^+$ satisfying the equation $$f(ab + bc + ca) =f(a)f(b) +f(b)f(c)+f(c)f(a)$$
for all $a, b,c \in Q^+$ .
Find all functions $f, g : Q \to Q$ satisfying the following equality $f(x + g(y)) = g(x) + 2 y + f(y)$ for all $x, y \in Q$.
(I. Voronovich)
Let $f : R \to R$ be a function from the set $R$ of real numbers to itself. Find all such functions $f$ satisfying the two properties:
(a) $f(x + f(y)) = y + f(x)$ for all $x, y \in R$,
(b) the set $\{ \frac{f(x)}{x} :x$ is a nonzero real number $\}$ is finite
Find all functions $f: R\to R$, such that $f(xy + x + y) + f(xy-x-y)=2f (x) + 2f (y)$ for all $x, y \in R$.
Let $f:] 0. \infty [ \to R$ be a strictly increasing function, such that $$f (x) f\left(f (x) +\frac{1}{x} \right)= 1.$$
Find $f (1)$.
Does there exist a function $f(n)$, which maps the set of natural numbers into itself and such that for each natural number $n > 1$ the following equation is satisfi ed $$f(n) = f(f(n - 1)) + f(f(n + 1))?$$
Let $Q^+$ denote the set of positive rationals. Determine all functions $f : Q^+ \to Q^+$ that satisfy both of these conditions:
(i) $f(x)$ is an integer if and only if $x$ is an integer;
(ii) $f(f(xf(y)) + x) = yf(x) + x$ for all $x, y \in Q^+$.
For a function $f: R\to R $ , $ f (2017)> 0$ as well as $f (x^2 + yf (z)) = xf (x) + zf (y)$ for all $x,y,z \in R$ is known. What is the value of $f (-42)$?
A function $f$ satisfies $$f(x)+xf(1-x)=x$$ for all real numbers $x$. Determine the number $f (2)$. Find $f$ .
Find all functions $f : Z \to Z$ such that $f(-1) = f(1)$ and $f(x)+ f(y) = f(x+2xy)+ f(y-2xy)$ for all $x,y \in Z$
Find all functions $f : Z^+ \to Z^+$ such that $n^3 - n^2 \le f(n) \cdot (f(f(n)))^2 \le n^3 + n^2$ for every $n$ in positive integers
A function $f : R -\{0\} \to R$ has the following properties:
(i) $f(x)- f(y) = f(x)f\left(\frac{1}{y}\right)- f(y)f\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)$ for all $x,y \ne 0$,
(ii) $f$ takes the value $\frac12$ at least once.
Determine $f(-1)$.
Prove that $f$ is a periodic function
Specify all functions $y = f(x)$, each in the largest possible domain (within the range of real numbers) of the equation
$$a \cdot f(x^n) + f(-x^n) = bx$$
suffice, where $b$ is any real number, $n$ is any odd natural number and $a$ is a real number with $|a| \ne 1$.
Find all functions $f : R \to R$ such that, for all real numbers $x, y,$
$$(x - y)(f(x) - f(y)) = f(x - f(y))f(f(x) - y).$$
The symbol $N_m$ denotes the set of all integers not less than the given integer $m$. Find all functions $f: N_m \to N_m$ such that $f(x^2+f(y))=y^2+f(x)$ for all $x,y \in N_m$.
Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ that satisfy $y^2f(x)(f(x)-2x)\le (1-xy)(1+xy) $ for any $x,y \in\mathbb{R}$.
Find all functions $f :R \to R$ such that for all real numbers $x$ and $y$
$$f(x^3+y^3)=f(x^3)+3x^3f(x)f(y)+3f(x)(f(y))^2+y^6f(y)$$
Let $f : R \to R$ be a function satisfying $f(f(x)) = 4x + 1$ for all real number $x$. Prove that the equation $f(x) = x$ has a unique solution.
Let $f$ be a function that is defined for all positive integers and whose values are positive integers. For $f$ it also holds that $f (n + 1)> f (n)$ and $f (f (n)) = 3n$, for each positive integer $n$. Calculate $f (2019)$.
The function $f$ satisfies the condition $$f (x + 1) = \frac{1 + f (x)}{1 - f (x)}$$ for all real $x$, for which the function is defined. Determine $f(2012)$, if we known that $f(1000)=2012$.
Find all functions $f,g : N \to N$ such that for all $m ,n \in N$ the following relation holds: $$f(m ) - f(n) = (m - n)(g(m) + g(n))$$.
Note: $N = \{0,1,2,...\}$
Let $a$ be a real number. Determine all functions $f: R \to R$ with $f (f (x) + y) = f (x^2 - y) + af (x) y$ for all $x, y \in R$.
(Walther Janous)