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Team Selection Test for JBMO 2023

Turkey 2023 algebra

Problem

Find all functions such that for all real numbers and for all real numbers .
Solution
All constant functions.

Let be two arbitrary numbers. Consider a sufficiently large so that and , thus and (here we used since ). Now while , hence , so is constant.
Final answer
All constant functions

Techniques

Functional Equations