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NO-ABEL 1997

Abel Competition 1997.

Other problems

Problem 1

We call a positive integer nn happy if there exist integers a,ba,b such that a2+b2=na^2+b^2 = n . If tt is happy, show that (a) 2t2t is happy, (b) 3t3t is not happy

Problem 4

Let p(x)p(x) be a polynomial with integer coefficients. Suppose that there exist different integers aa and bb such that f(a)=bf(a) = b and f(b)=af(b) = a . Show that the equation f(x)=xf(x) = x has at most one integer solution.