Found problems: 429
We define a beehive of order $n$ as follows:
a beehive of order 1 is one hexagon
To construct a beehive of order $n$, take a beehive of order $n-1$ and draw a layer of hexagons in the exterior of these hexagons. See diagram for examples of $n=2,3$
Initially some hexagons are infected by a virus. If a hexagon has been infected, it will always be infected. Otherwise, it will be infected if at least 5 out of the 6 neighbours are infected.
Let $f(n)$ be the minimum number of infected hexagons in the beginning so that after a finite time, all hexagons become infected. Find $f(n)$.
Fix an integer $n \geq 3$. Determine the smallest positive integer $k$ satisfying the following condition:
For any tree $T$ with vertices $v_1, v_2, \dots, v_n$ and any pairwise distinct complex numbers $z_1, z_2, \dots, z_n$, there is a polynomial $P(X, Y)$ with complex coefficients of total degree at most $k$ such that for all $i \neq j$ satisfying $1 \leq i, j \leq n$, we have $P(z_i, z_j) = 0$ if and only if there is an edge in $T$ joining $v_i$ to $v_j$.
Note, for example, that the total degree of the polynomial
$$
9X^3Y^4 + XY^5 + X^6 - 2
$$
is 7 because $7 = 3 + 4$.
[i]Proposed by Andrei Chiriță, Romania[/i]
Let $a$ and $b$ be positive integers. The cells of an $(a+b+1)\times (a+b+1)$ grid are colored amber and bronze such that there are at least $a^2+ab-b$ amber cells and at least $b^2+ab-a$ bronze cells. Prove that it is possible to choose $a$ amber cells and $b$ bronze cells such that no two of the $a+b$ chosen cells lie in the same row or column.
Show that there exists a finite set $A \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ such that for every $X \in A$ there are points $Y_1, Y_2, \ldots, Y_{1993}$ in $A$ such that the distance between $X$ and $Y_i$ is equal to 1, for every $i.$
Let $G$ be a simple connected graph with $2016$ vertices and $k$ edges. We want to choose a set of vertices where there is no edge between them and delete all these chosen vertices (we delete both the vertices and all edges of these vertices) such that the remaining graph becomes unconnected. If we can do this task no matter how these $k$ edges are arranged (by making the graph connected), find the maximal value of $k$.
There is a queue of $n{}$ girls on one side of a tennis table, and a queue of $n{}$ boys on the other side. Both the girls and the boys are numbered from $1{}$ to $n{}$ in the order they stand. The first game is played by the girl and the boy with the number $1{}$ and then, after each game, the loser goes to the end of their queue, and the winner remains at the table. After a while, it turned out that each girl played exactly one game with each boy. Prove that if $n{}$ is odd, then a girl and a boy with odd numbers played in the last game.
[i]Proposed by A. Gribalko[/i]
A crazy physicist discovered a new kind of particle wich he called an imon, after some of them mysteriously appeared in his lab. Some pairs of imons in the lab can be entangled, and each imon can participate in many entanglement relations. The physicist has found a way to perform the following two kinds of operations with these particles, one operation at a time.
(i) If some imon is entangled with an odd number of other imons in the lab, then the physicist can destroy it.
(ii) At any moment, he may double the whole family of imons in the lab by creating a copy $I'$ of each imon $I$. During this procedure, the two copies $I'$ and $J'$ become entangled if and only if the original imons $I$ and $J$ are entangled, and each copy $I'$ becomes entangled with its original imon $I$; no other entanglements occur or disappear at this moment.
Prove that the physicist may apply a sequence of such operations resulting in a family of imons, no two of which are entangled.
Determine all integers $ n\geq 2$ having the following property: for any integers $a_1,a_2,\ldots, a_n$ whose sum is not divisible by $n$, there exists an index $1 \leq i \leq n$ such that none of the numbers $$a_i,a_i+a_{i+1},\ldots,a_i+a_{i+1}+\ldots+a_{i+n-1}$$ is divisible by $n$. Here, we let $a_i=a_{i-n}$ when $i >n$.
[i]Proposed by Warut Suksompong, Thailand[/i]
Given a simple, connected graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. Prove that one can find at least $m$ ways separating the set of vertices into two parts, such that the induced subgraphs on both parts are connected.
Given positive integer $ m \geq 17$, $ 2m$ contestants participate in a circular competition. In each round, we devide the $ 2m$ contestants into $ m$ groups, and the two contestants in one group play against each other. The groups are re-divided in the next round. The contestants compete for $ 2m\minus{}1$ rounds so that each contestant has played a game with all the $ 2m\minus{}1$ players. Find the least possible positive integer $ n$, so that there exists a valid competition and after $ n$ rounds, for any $ 4$ contestants, non of them has played with the others or there have been at least $ 2$ games played within those $ 4$.
Let $\mathbb N$ denote the set of positive integers, and for a function $f$, let $f^k(n)$ denote the function $f$ applied $k$ times. Call a function $f : \mathbb N \to \mathbb N$ [i]saturated[/i] if \[ f^{f^{f(n)}(n)}(n) = n \] for every positive integer $n$. Find all positive integers $m$ for which the following holds: every saturated function $f$ satisfies $f^{2014}(m) = m$.
[i]Proposed by Evan Chen[/i]
This question is both combinatorics and Number Theory :
a ) Prove that we can color edges of $K_{p}$ with $p$ colors which is proper, ($p$ is an odd prime) and $K_{p}$ can be partitioned to $\frac{p-1}2$ rainbow Hamiltonian cycles. (A Hamiltonian cycle is a cycle that passes from all of verteces, and a rainbow is a subgraph that all of its edges have different colors.)
b) Find all answers of $x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}=1$ is $\mathbb Z_{p}$
In a simple graph $G$, we call $t$ pairwise adjacent vertices a $t$[i]-clique[/i]. If a vertex is connected with all other vertices in the graph, we call it a [i]central[/i] vertex. Given are two integers $n,k$ such that $\dfrac {3}{2} \leq \dfrac{1}{2} n < k < n$. Let $G$ be a graph on $n$ vertices such that
[b](1)[/b] $G$ does not contain a $(k+1)$-[i]clique[/i];
[b](2)[/b] if we add an arbitrary edge to $G$, that creates a $(k+1)$-[i]clique[/i].
Find the least possible number of [i]central[/i] vertices in $G$.
Consider an undirected, connected graph $G$ with vertex set $\{v_1,v_2,\ldots, v_6\}$. Starting at the vertex $v_1$, an ant uses a DFS algorithm to traverse through $G$ under the condition that if there are multiple unvisited neighbors of some vertex, the ant chooses the $v_i$ with smallest $i$. How many possible graphs $G$ are there satisfying the following property: for each $1\leq i\leq 6$, the vertex $v_i$ is the $i^{\text{th}}$ new vertex the ant traverses?
Let $S$ be a finite set of positive integers. Assume that there are precisely 2023 ordered pairs $(x,y)$ in $S\times S$ so that the product $xy$ is a perfect square. Prove that one can find at least four distinct elements in $S$ so that none of their pairwise products is a perfect square.
[i]Note:[/i] As an example, if $S=\{1,2,4\}$, there are exactly five such ordered pairs: $(1,1)$, $(1,4)$, $(2,2)$, $(4,1)$, and $(4,4)$.
[i]Proposed by Sutanay Bhattacharya[/i]
Given positive integer $ m \geq 17$, $ 2m$ contestants participate in a circular competition. In each round, we devide the $ 2m$ contestants into $ m$ groups, and the two contestants in one group play against each other. The groups are re-divided in the next round. The contestants compete for $ 2m\minus{}1$ rounds so that each contestant has played a game with all the $ 2m\minus{}1$ players. Find the least possible positive integer $ n$, so that there exists a valid competition and after $ n$ rounds, for any $ 4$ contestants, non of them has played with the others or there have been at least $ 2$ games played within those $ 4$.
Determine all integers $ n\geq 2$ having the following property: for any integers $a_1,a_2,\ldots, a_n$ whose sum is not divisible by $n$, there exists an index $1 \leq i \leq n$ such that none of the numbers $$a_i,a_i+a_{i+1},\ldots,a_i+a_{i+1}+\ldots+a_{i+n-1}$$ is divisible by $n$. Here, we let $a_i=a_{i-n}$ when $i >n$.
[i]Proposed by Warut Suksompong, Thailand[/i]
Initially, each unit square of an $n \times n$ grid is colored red, yellow or blue. In each round, perform the following operation for every unit square simultaneously:
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[*] For a red square, if there is a yellow square that has a common edge with it, then color it yellow.
[*] For a yellow square, if there is a blue square that has a common edge with it, then color it blue.
[*] For a blue square, if there is a red square that has a common edge with it, then color it red.
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It is known that after several rounds, all unit squares of this $n \times n$ grid have the same color. Prove that the grid has became monochromatic no later than the end of the $(2n-2)$-th round.
Let $G$ be a simple graph with 100 vertices such that for each vertice $u$, there exists a vertice $v \in N \left ( u \right )$ and $ N \left ( u \right ) \cap N \left ( v \right ) = \o $. Try to find the maximal possible number of edges in $G$. The $ N \left ( . \right )$ refers to the neighborhood.
Find all polynomials $P$ with integer coefficients such that all the roots of $P^n(x)$ are integers. (here $P^n(x)$ means $P(P(...(P(x))...))$ where $P$ is repeated $n$ times)
Let $n$ ($\ge 4$) be an even integer. We label $n$ pairwise distinct real numbers arbitrarily on the $n$ vertices of a regular $n$-gon, and label the $n$ sides clockwise as $e_1, e_2, \ldots, e_n$. A side is called [i]positive[/i] if the numbers on both endpoints are increasing in clockwise direction. An unordered pair of distinct sides $\left\{ e_i,e_j \right\}$ is called [i]alternating[/i] if it satisfies both conditions:
(i) $2 \mid (i+j)$; and
(ii) if one rearranges the four numbers on the vertices of these two sides $e_i$ and $e_j$ in increasing order $a < b < c < d$, then $a$ and $c$ are the numbers on the two endpoints of one of sides $e_i$ or $e_j$.
Prove that the number of alternating pairs of sides and the number of positive sides are of different parity.
Let $n$ be a positive integer. Define a chameleon to be any sequence of $3n$ letters, with exactly $n$ occurrences of each of the letters $a, b,$ and $c$. Define a swap to be the transposition of two adjacent letters in a chameleon. Prove that for any chameleon $X$ , there exists a chameleon $Y$ such that $X$ cannot be changed to $Y$ using fewer than $3n^2/2$ swaps.
Let $P$ be a convex polyhedron. Jaroslav writes a non-negative real number to every vertex of $P$ in such a way that the sum of these numbers is $1$. Afterwards, to every edge he writes the product of the numbers at the two endpoints of that edge. Prove that the sum of the numbers at the edges is at most $\frac{3}{8}$.
Find the maximal value of
\[S = \sqrt[3]{\frac{a}{b+7}} + \sqrt[3]{\frac{b}{c+7}} + \sqrt[3]{\frac{c}{d+7}} + \sqrt[3]{\frac{d}{a+7}},\]
where $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$ are nonnegative real numbers which satisfy $a+b+c+d = 100$.
[i]Proposed by Evan Chen, Taiwan[/i]
Twenty-one girls and twenty-one boys took part in a mathematical competition. It turned out that each contestant solved at most six problems, and for each pair of a girl and a boy, there was at least one problem that was solved by both the girl and the boy. Show that there is a problem that was solved by at least three girls and at least three boys.