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Solve $f(x+f(2y))=f(x)+f(y)+y$
Find all $f:\mathbb{R}^+\to \mathbb{R}^+$ such that for each $x$ and $y$ in $\mathbb{R}^+$, $$f(x+f(2y))=f(x)+f(y)+y$$
Note:
$f(x)=x+b$ is a solution for all $b\in\mathbb{R}^+$ but I can not prove ...
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How different can $f(g(x))$ and $g(f(x))$ be?
Given $f,g: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, how "different" can $f(g(x))$ and $g(f(x))$ be?
By "how different" I mean:
Given two real-valued functions $a,b$ do there exist two real-valued ...
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Is there a bijective, monotonically increasing, strictly concave function from the reals, to the reals?
I can't come up with a single one.
The range should be the whole of the reals. The best I have is $\log(x)$ but that's only on the positive real line. And there's $f(x) = x$, but this is not strictly ...
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Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ where $f(xf(y)+f(x)+y)=xy+f(x)+f(y)$
Find all functions $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ for two real numbers $x$ and $y$ where $f(xf(y)+f(x)+y)=xy+f(x)+f(y)$
For $x=0$ and $y=-f(0)$ then $f(-f(0))=0$. So, there is a real root $r_0$ ...
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Why is the range a larger set than the domain?
When we have a function $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$, I can intuitively picture that and think that for every $x \in \mathbb{R}$, we can find a $y \in \mathbb{R}$ such that our function $f$ maps $x$ ...
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How to strengthen $ h \big( 2 h ( x ) \big) = h ( x ) + x $ to force $ h $ to be linear?
Let $ h : \mathbb R \to \mathbb R $ be an injective function such that
$$
h \big( 2 h ( x ) \big) = h ( x ) + x
$$
for all $ x \in \mathbb R $, and $ h ( 0 ) = 0 $. What would be an as mild as ...
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Existence of Function Taking Every Value Uncountably Many Times
I am stuck on the following problem coming from a plane geometry theorem I'm working on. This is a generalization of that problem which might actually prove easier to handle. All the techniques that ...
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If $a$ and $b$ are roots of $x^4+x^3-1=0$, $ab$ is a root of $x^6+x^4+x^3-x^2-1=0$.
I have to prove that:
If $a$ and $b$ are two roots of $x^4+x^3-1=0$, then $ab$ is a root of $x^6+x^4+x^3-x^2-1=0$.
I tried this :
$a$ and $b$ are root of $x^4+x^3-1=0$ means :
$\begin{cases}
a^4+...
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Is $\frac{1}{x}$ a function?
Consider $f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$ defined on set of real numbers.
If every element in domain has image, then above relation is said to be a function.
But for $x=0$, $f(x)=\text{infinity}$.
Does it mean ...
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Is the range of an injective function dense somewhere?
Consider an injective function $\,\,f:[0,1]\rightarrow[0,1].\,$ Then is it true that there always exists some non-empty open subinterval of $[0,1]$, such that $f([0,1])$ is dense in that subinterval? ...
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Is the function $\,f(x, y) = x-y\,$ closed?
Is the function $\,\,f: \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, defined as $$f(x,y)=x-y,$$ closed?
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Rudin's definition of derivative
Walter Rudin's Principle of Mathematical Analysis defines the derivative as follows in Definition 5.1:
Let $f$ be defined (and real-valued) on $[a,b]$. For any $x \in [a,b]$ form the quotient
$$\...
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Whether the given function is one-one or onto or bijective?
Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to \mathbb{R}$ be such that
$$f(x)=x^3+x^2+x+\{x\}$$ where $\{x\}$ denotes the fractional part of $x$. Whether $f$ is one-one or onto or both?
For one-one, we need to show that if $f(...
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If following actions allowed, Find $F(2002,2020,2200)?$
If following actions allowed,Find $F(2002,2020,2200)?$
$$ F(x+t,y+t,z+t)=t+F(x,y,z);$$
$$ F(xt,yt,zt)=tF(x,y,z);$$
$$ F(x,y,z)=F(y,x,z)=F(x,z,y)$$
where x,y,z,t are real numbers.
My attempt:
$F(0,0,0)...
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Suppose $A$ is a countable subset of $\mathbb{R}$. Show that $\mathbb{R} \sim \mathbb{R} \setminus A $.
Here is the question I am trying to answer: Let $\mathbb{R}$ denote the reals and suppose A is a countable subset of $\mathbb{R}$. Show that $\mathbb{R} \sim \mathbb{R} \setminus A $.
My attempt:
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