Determine, with proof, whether or not there exist integers satisfying the equation
Solution
We claim there do exist such integers .
Note that satisfy the given equation. For , define by
It is not hard to verify algebraically that
which shows that satisfy the given equation for all . Moreover, notice that , , and for all ; this implies that for sufficiently large we will have , yielding the desired result.
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