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Find all functions $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that $$f(f(x)+y)+xf(y)=f(xy+y)+f(x)$$ for reals $x, y$.
Find all functions $f: \mathbb{Q^+} \rightarrow \mathbb{Q}$ satisfying $f(x)+f(y)= \left(f(x+y)+\frac{1}{x+y} \right) (1-xy+f(xy))$ for all $x, y \in \mathbb{Q^+}$.
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ such that for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}$, $$f(xy+f(x))=f(xf(y))+x$$
A piecewise linear function is defined by \[f(x) = \begin{cases} x & \text{if } x \in [-1, 1) \\ 2 - x & \text{if } x \in [1, 3)\end{cases}\] and $f(x + 4) = f(x)$ for all real numbers $x.$ The graph of $f(x)$ has the sawtooth pattern depicted below. [color=transparent]Diagram from RandomMath.[/color] [center][img width=45]https://i.ibb.co/JW8jH2Dr/image.png[/img][/center] The parabola $x = 34y^2$ intersects the graph of $f(x)$ at finitely many points. The sum of the $y$-coordinates of these intersection points can be expressed in the form $\tfrac{a + b\sqrt c}d,$ where $a, b, c$ and $d$ are positive integers, $a, b,$ and $d$ has greatest common divisor equal to $1,$ and $c$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find $a + b + c + d.$
$f$ is a function defined on integers and satisfies $f(x)+f(x+3)=x^2$ for every integer $x$. If $f(19)=94$, then calculate $f(94)$.
Let $c>0$ be a given positive real and $\mathbb{R}_{>0}$ be the set of all positive reals. Find all functions $f \colon \mathbb{R}_{>0} \to \mathbb{R}_{>0}$ such that \[f((c+1)x+f(y))=f(x+2y)+2cx \quad \textrm{for all } x,y \in \mathbb{R}_{>0}.\]
Let $f:\mathbb{R}^+\to\mathbb{R}^+$ be a function that satisfies for all $x>y>0$ \[f(x+y)-f(x-y)=4\sqrt{f(x)f(y)}\] a) Prove that $f(2x)=4f(x)$ for all $x>0$; b) Find all such functions. [i]Nikolai Nikolov, Oleg Mushkarov [/i]
Find all functions $ f: \mathbb{R} \mapsto \mathbb{R}$ such that $ \forall x,y,z \in \mathbb{R}$ we have: If \[ x^3 \plus{} f(y) \cdot x \plus{} f(z) \equal{} 0,\] then \[ f(x)^3 \plus{} y \cdot f(x) \plus{} z \equal{} 0.\]
Find all functions $f:R^+\rightarrow R^+$ such that for all positive reals $x$ and $y$ $$4f(x+yf(x))=f(x)f(2y)$$
Find all functions $f: {\mathbb{R^\plus{}}}\to{\mathbb{R^\plus{}}}$ such that \[ f(1\plus{}xf(y))\equal{}yf(x\plus{}y)\] for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R^\plus{}}$.
Let $f:\mathbb{N} \longrightarrow \mathbb{N}$ be such that for every positive integer $n$, followings are satisfied. i. $f(n+1) > f(n)$ ii. $f(f(n)) = 2n+2$ Find the value of $f(2013)$. (Here, $\mathbb{N}$ is the set of all positive integers.)
Determine all functions $f:\mathbb{R}_+\to\mathbb{R}_+$ which satisfy \[f\left(\frac{y}{f(x)}\right)+x=f(xy)+f(f(x)),\]for any positive real numbers $x$ and $y$. [i]Proposed by Pavel Ciurea[/i]
Let $\mathbb{Z} _{>0}$ be the set of positive integers. Find all functions $f: \mathbb{Z} _{>0}\rightarrow \mathbb{Z} _{>0}$ such that \[ m^2 + f(n) \mid mf(m) +n \] for all positive integers $m$ and $n$.
Find all functions $f : \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ such that \[f\left(x+xy+f(y)\right)= \left( f(x)+\frac 12 \right) \left( f(y)+\frac 12 \right) \qquad \forall x,y \in \mathbb R.\]
Find all functions $f:(0,+\infty) \to (0,+\infty)$ that satisfy $(i)$ $f(xf(y))=yf(x), \forall x,y > 0,$ $(ii)$ $\displaystyle\lim_{x\to+\infty} f(x) = 0.$
Find all functions $f ,g,h : R\to R$ such that $f(x+y^3)+g(x^3+y) = h(xy)$ for all $x,y \in R$
Find all functions $f : \mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ for which \[f(a - b) f(c - d) + f(a - d) f(b - c) \leq (a - c) f(b - d),\] for all real numbers $a, b, c$ and $d$. Note that there is only one occurrence of $f$ on the right hand side!
For a positive integer $n$ denote $A = \{1,2,..., n\}$. Suppose that $g : A\to A$ is a fixed function with $g(k) \ne k$ and $g(g(k)) = k$ for $k \in A$. How many functions $f: A \to A$ are there such that $f(k)\ne g(k)$ and $f(f(f(k))= g(k)$ for $k \in A$?
Let $\mathbb{R}^+$ denote the set of positive real numbers. Find all functions $f : \mathbb{R}^+\to\mathbb{R}^+$ that satisfy \[ \Big(1+yf(x)\Big)\Big(1-yf(x+y)\Big)=1\] for all $x,y\in\mathbb{R}^+$.
Find all functions $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$ such that (i) $f(0)=1$; (ii) $f(x+f(y))=f(x+y)+1$ for all real $x,y$; (iii) there is a rational non-integer $x_0$ such that $f(x_0)$ is an integer.
Let $ f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R} $ be an increasing function satisfying the following conditions: 1. $ f(x+1) = f(x) + 1 $ for each $ x \in \mathbb{R} $, 2. there exists an integer p such that $ f(f(f(O))) = p $. Prove that for every real number $ x $ $$ \lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{x_n}{n} = \frac{p}{3}.$$ where $ x_1 = x $ and $ x_n =f(x_{n-1}) $ for $ n = 2, 3, \ldots $.
Let $H = \{-2019,-2018, ...,-1, 0, 1, 2, ..., 2020\}$. Describe all functions $f : H \to H$ for which a) $x = f(x) - f(f(x))$ holds for every $x \in H$. b) $x = f(x) + f(f(x)) - f(f(f(x)))$ holds for every $x \in H$. c) $x = f(x) + 2f(f(x)) - 3f(f(f(x)))$ holds for every $x \in H$. PS. (a) + (b) for category E 1.5, (b) + (c) for category E+ 1.2
Find all functions $f:R\to R$ such that for all real $x,y$ with $y\ne 0$ $$f(x-f(x/y))=xf(1-f(1/y))$$ and a) $f(1-f(1))\ne 0$ b) $ f(1-f(1))= 0$ S. Kuzmich, I.Voronovich
Find all real numbers $a$ for which there exists a function $f: R \to R$ asuch that $x + f(y) =a(y + f(x))$ for all real numbers $x,y\in R$. I.Voronovich
Find all functions $f : R^+ \to R^+$ such that $x^2(f(x)+ f(y)) = (x+y)f (f(x)y)$ for any $x,y > 0$.