IMC 2018 · Problem 4

Day 125th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Find all differentiable functions f ⁣:(0,)Rf \colon (0, \infty) \to \mathbb{R} such that

f(b)f(a)=(ba)f(ab)for alla,b>0.(2)f(b) - f(a) = (b - a)f'\left(\sqrt{ab}\right) \quad \text{for all} \quad a, b > 0. \tag{2}

Official solution

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Proposed by Orif Ibrogimov, National University of Uzbekistan.