Let $ a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_{2n}$ be $ 2n$ real numbers satisfying the condition $ \sum_{i \equal{} 1}^{2n \minus{} 1} (a_{i \plus{} 1} \minus{} a_i)^2 \equal{} 1$. Find the greatest possible value of $ (a_{n \plus{} 1} \plus{} a_{n \plus{} 2} \plus{} \ldots \plus{} a_{2n}) \minus{} (a_1 \plus{} a_2 \plus{} \ldots \plus{} a_n)$.

Consider the cube with the vertices at the points $(\pm 1, \pm 1, \pm 1)$. Let $V_1,...,V_{95}$ be arbitrary points within this cube. Denote $v_i = \overrightarrow{OV_i}$, where $O = (0,0,0)$ is the origin. Consider the $2^{95}$ vectors of the form $s_1v_1 + s_2v_2 +...+ s_{95}v_{95}$, where $s_i = \pm 1$. (a) If $d = 48$, prove that among these vectors there is a vector $w = (a, b, c)$ such that $a^2 + b^2 + c^2 \le 48$. (b) Find a smaller $d$ (the smaller, the better) with the same property.

Given A, non-inverted matrices of order n with real elements, $n\ge 2$ and given ${{A}^{*}}$adjoin matrix A. Prove that $tr({{A}^{*}})\ne -1$ if and only if the matrix ${{I}_{n}}+{{A}^{*}}$ is invertible.

A transposition of a vector is created by switching exactly two entries of the vector. For example, $(1,5,3,4,2,6,7)$ is a transposition of $(1,2,3,4,5,6,7).$ Find the vector $X$ if $S=(0,0,1,1,0,1,1)$, $T=(0,0,1,1,1,1,0),$ $U=(1,0,1,0,1,1,0),$ and $V=(1,1,0,1,0,1,0)$ are all transpositions of $X$. Describe your method for finding $X.$

An $n\times n$ matrix $A$ with integer entries is called [i]representative[/i] if, for any integer vector $\mathbf{v}$, there is a finite sequence $0=\mathbf{v}_0,\mathbf{v}_1,\dots,\mathbf{v}_{\ell}=\mathbf{v}$ of integer vectors such that for each $0\leq i <\ell$, either $\mathbf{v}_{i+1}=A\mathbf{v}_{i}$ or $\mathbf{v}_{i+1}-\mathbf{v}_i$ is an element of the standard basis (i.e. one of its entries is $1$, the rest are all equal to $0$). Show that $A$ is not representative if and only if $A^T$ has a real eigenvector with all non-negative entries and non-negative eigenvalue.

Let $P$ be a point on the graph of the function $y=x+\frac{2}{x}(x>0)$. $PA,PB$ are perpendicular to line $y=x$ and $x=0$, respectively, the feet of perpendicular being $A$ and $B$. Find the value of $\overrightarrow{PA}\cdot \overrightarrow{PB}$.

Let $ABC$ be a triangle with incenter $I$, incircle $\gamma$ and circumcircle $\Gamma$. Let $M,N,P$ be the midpoints of sides $\overline{BC}$, $\overline{CA}$, $\overline{AB}$ and let $E,F$ be the tangency points of $\gamma$ with $\overline{CA}$ and $\overline{AB}$, respectively. Let $U,V$ be the intersections of line $EF$ with line $MN$ and line $MP$, respectively, and let $X$ be the midpoint of arc $BAC$ of $\Gamma$. (a) Prove that $I$ lies on ray $CV$. (b) Prove that line $XI$ bisects $\overline{UV}$.

Let $P$ be a fixed point and $T$ a given triangle that contains the point $P$. Translate the triangle $T$ by a given vector $\bold{v}$ and denote by $T'$ this new triangle. Let $r, R$, respectively, be the radii of the smallest disks centered at $P$ that contain the triangles $T , T'$, respectively. Prove that $r + |\bold{v}| \leq 3R$ and find an example to show that equality can occur.

For which positive integers $n$ is there an $n\times n$ matrix with integer entries such that every dot product of a row with itself is even, while every dot product of two different rows is odd?

The National Foundation of Happiness (NFoH) wants to estimate the happiness of people of country. NFoH selected $n$ random persons, and on every morning asked from each of them whether she is happy or not. On any two distinct days, exactly half of the persons gave the same answer. Show that after $k$ days, there were at most $n-\frac{n}{k}$ persons whose “yes” answers equals their “no” answers.

[b]problem 5.[/b] Let $x_1, x_2,\ldots, x_k$ be vectors of $m$-dimensional Euclidean space, such that $x_1+x_2+\ldots + x_k=0$. Show that there exists a permutation $\pi$ of the integers $\{ 1, 2, \ldots, k \}$ such that: $$\left\lVert \sum_{i=1}^n x_{\pi (i)}\right\rVert \leq \left( \sum_{i=1}^k \lVert x_i \rVert ^2\right)^{1/2}$$for each $n=1, 2, \ldots, k$. Note that $\lVert \cdot \rVert$ denotes the Euclidean norm. (18 points).

Suppose that the function $h:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}$ has continuous partial derivatives and satisfies the equation \[h(x,y)=a\frac{\partial h}{\partial x}(x,y)+b\frac{\partial h}{\partial y}(x,y)\] for some constants $a,b.$ Prove that if there is a constant $M$ such that $|h(x,y)|\le M$ for all $(x,y)$ in $\mathbb{R}^2,$ then $h$ is identically zero.

Show there do not exist four points in the Euclidean plane such that the pairwise distances between the points are all odd integers.

Given the vector spaces $V,W$ with coefficients over a field $K$ and function $ \phi :V\to W$ satisfying the relation : $$\varphi(\lambda x+y)= \lambda \varphi(x)+\phi (y)$$ for all $x,y \in V, \lambda \in K$. Such a function is called linear. Let $L\varphi=\{x\in V/\varphi(x)=0\}$ , and$M=\varphi(V)$ , prove that : (i) $L\varphi$ is subspace of $V$ and $M$ is subspace of $W$ (ii) $L\varphi={O}$ iff $\varphi$ is $1-1$ (iii) Dimension of $V$ equals to dimension of $L\varphi$ plus dimension of $M$ (iv) If $\theta : \mathbb{R}^3\to\mathbb{R}^3$ with $\theta(x,y,z)=(2x-z,x-y,x-3y+z)$, prove that $\theta$ is linear function . Find $L\theta=\{x\in {R}^3/\theta(x)=0\}$ and dimension of $M=\theta({R}^3)$.

Find all natural numbers which are the cardinal of a set of nonzero Euclidean vectors whose sum is $ 0, $ the sum of any two of them is nonzero, and their magnitudes are equal.

Show that for every odd integer $N>5$ there exist vectors $\bf u,v,w$ in (three-dimensional) space which are pairwise perpendicular, not parallel with any of the coordinate axes, have integer coordinates, and satisfy $N\bf =|u|=|v|=|w|.$ [i]Based on problem 2 of the 2018 Kürschák contest[/i]

A set of five different positive integers is called [i]virtual[/i] if the greatest common divisor of any three of its elements is greater than $1$, but the greatest common divisor of any four of its elements is equal to $1$. Prove that, in any virtual set, the product of its elements has at least $2020$ distinct positive divisors. [i]Proposed by Víctor Almendra[/i]

Do there exist polynomials $a(x)$, $b(x)$, $c(y)$, $d(y)$ such that \[1 + xy + x^2y^2= a(x)c(y) + b(x)d(y)\] holds identically?

Define in the plane the sequence of vectors $v_1, v_2, \ldots$ with initial values $v_1 = (1, 0)$, $v_2 = (-1/\sqrt{2}, 1/\sqrt{2})$ and satisfying the relationship $$v_n=\frac{v_{n-1}+v_{n-2}}{\lVert v_{n-1}+v_{n-2}\rVert},$$ for $n \geq 3$. Show that the sequence is convergent and determine its limit. [b]Note:[/b] The expression $\lVert v \rVert$ denotes the length of the vector $v$.

Let $n\ge 3$ be an integer. Two players, Ana and Beto, play the following game. Ana tags the vertices of a regular $n$- gon with the numbers from $1$ to $n$, in any order she wants. Every vertex must be tagged with a different number. Then, we place a turkey in each of the $n$ vertices. These turkeys are trained for the following. If Beto whistles, each turkey moves to the adjacent vertex with greater tag. If Beto claps, each turkey moves to the adjacent vertex with lower tag. Beto wins if, after some number of whistles and claps, he gets to move all the turkeys to the same vertex. Ana wins if she can tag the vertices so that Beto can't do this. For each $n\ge 3$, determine which player has a winning strategy. [i]Proposed by Victor and Isaías de la Fuente[/i]

Two triangles $ ABC$and $ A'B'C'$ are positioned in the space such that the length of every side of $ \triangle ABC$ is not less than $ a$, and the length of every side of $ \triangle A'B'C'$ is not less than $ a'$. Prove that one can select a vertex of $ \triangle ABC$ and a vertex of $ \triangle A'B'C'$ so that the distance between the two selected vertices is not less than $ \sqrt {\frac {a^2 \plus{} a'^2}{3}}$.

[b]1.[/b] Let $a_{1}, a_{2}, \dots , a_{n}$ and $b_{1}, b_{2}, \dots , b_{m}$ be $n+m$ unit vectors in the $r$-dimensional Euclidean space $E_{r} (n,m \leq r)$; let $a_{1}, a_{2}, \dots , a_{n}$ as well as $b_{1}, b_{2}, \dots , b_{m}$ be mutually orthogonal. For any vector $x \in E_{r}$, consider $Tx= \sum_{i=1}^{n}\sum_{k=1}^{m}(x,a_{i})(a_{i},b_{k})b_{k}$ ($(a,b)$ denotes the scalar product of $a$ and $b$). Show that the sequence $(T^{k}x)^{\infty}_{ k =0}$, where $T^{0} x= x$ and $T^{k} x = T(T^{k-1}x)$, is convergent and give a geometrical characterization of how the limit depends on $x$. [b](S. 14)[/b]

Let $ABC$ be a triangle and $A',B',C'$ be the midpoints of $BC,CA,AB$ respectively. Let $P$ and $P'$ be points in plane such that $PA=P'A',PB=P'B',PC=P'C'$. Prove that all $PP'$ pass through a fixed point.

Given a triangle $ ABC$. Let $ G$, $ I$, $ H$ be the centroid, the incenter and the orthocenter of triangle $ ABC$, respectively. Prove that $ \angle GIH > 90^{\circ}$.

Let $U$ denote the set $\{ f\in C[0, 1] \colon |f(x)|\leq 1\, \mathrm{for}\,\mathrm{all}\, x\in [0, 1]\}$. Prove that there is no topology on $C[0, 1]$ that, together with the linear structure of $C[0,1]$, makes $C[0,1]$ into a topological vector space in which the set $U$ is compact. (Assume that topological vector spaces are Hausdorff) [V. Totik]