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Putnam 2005 B3

  • Session B

Find all differentiable functions f:(0,∞)→(0,∞)f: (0, \infty) \to (0, \infty) for which there is a positive real number aa such that f′(ax)=xf(x)f' \left( \frac{a}{x} \right) = \frac{x}{f(x)} for all x>0x > 0.

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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