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HMMT 2014 T5

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Prove that there exists a nonzero complex number cc and a real number dd such that

∥∣11+z+z2∣−∣11+z+z2−c∣∣ =d\left.\|\left|\frac{1}{1+z+z^{2}}\right|-\left|\frac{1}{1+z+z^{2}}-c\right| \right\rvert\,=d

for all zz with ∣z∣=1|z|=1 and 1+z+z2≠01+z+z^{2} \neq 0. (Here, ∣z∣|z| denotes the absolute value of the complex number zz, so that ∣a+bi∣=a2+b2|a+b i|=\sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}} for real numbers a,ba, b.)

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