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Putnam 2009 B4

  • Session B

Say that a polynomial with real coefficients in two variables, x,yx,y, is balanced if the average value of the polynomial on each circle centered at the origin is 00. The balanced polynomials of degree at most 20092009 form a vector space VV over R\mathbb{R}. Find the dimension of VV.

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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