IMC 2016 · Problem 2

Day 223rd IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Today, Ivan the Confessor prefers continuous functions f ⁣:[0,1]Rf \colon [0, 1] \to \mathbb{R} satisfying f(x)+f(y)xyf(x) + f(y) \ge |x - y| for all pairs x,y[0,1]x, y \in [0, 1]. Find the minimum of 01f\int_0^1 f over all preferred functions.

Official solution

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Proposed by Fedor Petrov, St. Petersburg State University.