Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University Mechmat Competition
6 March 2013Problems for 1st and 2nd year students1. Find all such continuous functions
that
and
for all
. (Ivan Feshchenko)
2. Does there exist such a finite ring (not necessarily commutative or with a unit) that for every its element
there exists such an element
different from
that
(Sergiy Slobodianiuk)
3. In a given triangle the lengths of sides and tangents of angles are arithmetic progressions. Find the angles. (Alexander Kukush, Maria Rozhkova)
4. Let
. Prove the inequality
(Ivan Feshchenko)
5. Let
be such
matrices that for every
matrix
the equation
has a solution
. Prove that then for every matrix
the equation
has a solution too. (Ivan Feshchenko)
6. There are given such functions
that for every two different numbers
either the inequality
or inequality
holds. Prove that there do not exist such numbers
and
that for all
the inequality
holds. (Oleksiy Rudenko)
7. A
positive integer is called good if it is the
-th power of an integer for some
. Is finite or infinite the set of all integers that are not sums of two good integers? (Andriy Bondarenko)
8. Let
. Can a product
equal the unit matrix if every multiplier
equals either
or
(Yevgen Makedonsky)
Problems for 3rd-5th year students1. Calculate the sum of series
(Dmytro Mitin)
2. Does there exist such a finite nonzero ring (not necessarily commutative or with a unit) that for every nonzero element
there exists such an element
different from
that
(Sergiy Slobodianiuk)
3. There are given such functions
that for every two different numbers
either the inequality
or inequality
holds. Prove that there do not exist such numbers
and
that for all
the inequality
holds. (Oleksiy Rudenko)
4. Let
be such
complex matrices that for every
matrix
the equation
has a solution
. Prove that
where
is the number of zeroes in the main diagonal of Jordan form of
. (Ivan Feshchenko)
5. Let
Is it always true that
(Here the essential supremums are taken with respect to Lebesgue measure on the line). (Alexander Kukush)
6. Do there exist such real nonconstant rational functions
and
that
for all
from the intersection of definition domains for left and right hand sides of the equality? (Yevgen Makedonsky)
7. Let
be such a probabilistic measure on Borel
-algebra on
that for every straight line
it is true that
Does there always exist such a bounded Borel set
that for every straight line
it is true that
(Alexander Kukush)
8. Let
be such a sequence of real numbers that
be a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables with distribution
and
Prove that the series
converges
in probability. (Georgiy Shevchenko)
Time allowed: 3 hours