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Putnam 1991 B2

  • Session B

Suppose ff and gg are non-constant, differentiable, real-valued functions defined on (−∞,∞)(-\infty, \infty). Furthermore, suppose that for each pair of real numbers xx and yy,

f(x+y)=f(x)f(y)−g(x)g(y),g(x+y)=f(x)g(y)+g(x)f(y).\begin{aligned}f(x+y) &= f(x)f(y) - g(x)g(y), \\ g(x+y) &= f(x)g(y) + g(x)f(y).\end{aligned}

If f′(0)=0f'(0) = 0, prove that (f(x))2+(g(x))2=1(f(x))^2 + (g(x))^2 = 1 for all xx.

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