Find all functions that for all real and satisfy the equation
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Answer: The only such a function is .
At first, assume that for some . It means that we can choose such that
(because for this equation has two solutions with respect to ), and if we insert it into the given equation we obtain an equality . As then . But is not a solution of — contradiction. Thus for all .
Note that is a solution. So assume that for some . At first we show that is unbounded. Assume the contrary and put into the equation. We get that
and see that if is bounded then the left hand side of this equality also is bounded, but the right hand side is unbounded, that is impossible.
If we put in the original equation we get that . As is unbounded and nonpositive we conclude that we can find arbitrarily large such that . Now put and choose such that and . We get that
what contradicts the fact, that for all real .
Solution 2
For we have , in particular . Denote .
For we have and substituting instead of gives
hence for any .
Finally,
hence and (the choice of may depend on ).
Then gives , and for every .