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FINAL ROUND

Belarus algebra

Problem

Find all functions , satisfying the following conditions: for all real . (Here stands for the fractional part of .)
Solution
Let satisfies the problem condition: for all real . Replacing by in (1) we obtain: From (2) it follows that . So . From (1) and the equality it follows that: We have and for . Therefore from (3) we have for . Dividing the last equality by we obtain: Consider the function , . It is increasing since increases and decreases. Since in view of (4) for , we obtain .
Final answer
f(x) = x for all x in [0,1]

Techniques

Injectivity / surjectivity