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Rugged functions.

Source: Israel Olympic Revenge 2019 P4, also SL N8.

May 4, 2022
functional equationfunctional equation in Nalgebra

Problem Statement

Call a function Z>0Z>0\mathbb Z_{>0}\rightarrow \mathbb Z_{>0} \emph{M-rugged} if it is unbounded and satisfies the following two conditions: (1)(1) If f(n)f(m)f(n)|f(m) and f(n)<f(m)f(n)<f(m) then nmn|m. (2)(2) f(n+1)f(n)M|f(n+1)-f(n)|\leq M. a. Find all 1rugged1-rugged functions. b. Determine if the number of 2rugged2-rugged functions is smaller than 20192019.