The 2014 IMO is presented by the South African Mathematics
Foundation and will take place at the University of Cape Town. The
event is endorsed by the Department of Basic Education and the
Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of South
Africa.
第55届国际数学奥利匹克(
International Mathematical
Olympiad,简称IMO )将于2014年7月3日至13日在南非首都开普敦举行。
中国国家队参赛队员名单(共6人):
上海中学,高继扬
济南历城二中,齐仁睿
武钢三中,黄一山
湖南师大附中,谌澜天
深圳中学,周韫坤
东北师大附中,浦鸿铭
领队:姚一隽,复旦大学
副领队:李秋生,人大附中
观察员A:冷岗松,上海大学
观察员B:张思汇,上海理工大学
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数学竞赛俱乐部 2014年IMO第一天试题
Problem 1. Let
be an infinite sequence of positive integers. Prove that there
exists a unique integer
such that
【A】Define the function
by
The condition
simplifies to
and the condition
simplifies to
Thus, we want to show that there is a unique positive integer
so that
We claim that
is strictly decreasing over the positive integers: we have
since
for all
. Thus,
is strictly decreasing, as claimed. Further, since
is always an integer, we must have
for all
.
Note that
. Then, we have
,
, and by a straightforward induction argument,
for all
Then
so there is a positive integer
so that
Let
be the least positive integer
for which
. Since
is strictly decreasing,
if and only if
. Then, we must have
, so
Thus,
is an integer satisfying the given conditions. Further, there
cannot be another integer
satisfying the given conditions. If there was such an
, then
, so
. However, then
so
, a contradiction. Thus there is a unique positive
satisfying the given conditions.
【B】
Observe that the second
inequality for a given
is equivalent to the opposite of the first inequality for
. For
the first inequality is satisfied, and if the second isn't,
then, by what has been just said, the first inequality is satisfied
for
. If no
as wanted exists, then, by continuing in this manner one sees
that for any
, the first inequality must always be satisfied. However,
which is larger than
for
large enough. Hence there must exist at least one
as wanted. For this
we have, in particular (from the second inequality)
Were there an index
for which the first inequality held again, that is,
then one can apply the previous inequality for the first
terms of the right hand side and notice that each of the
remaining ones is smaller than
to obtain a contradiction.
【C】
We rewrite the condition as
Note that for all
which implies
is monotonically increasing. Obviously
is unbounded from above. At
it equals zero. Now let
be the largest integer such that
We have that
by our hypothesis, so this is our desired
which is clearly unique.
【D】 Suppose that for every
we have
for
,
. For
,
so
and by induction
which it is a contradiction because we have an infinite
sequence of positive integer and bounded !
Let
be an integer such that
we have
if
we get the existence, if not then
and again if
we have done and if not we have
and we continue until reaching the integer
for which we have
The uniqueness is obvious because if
then
and since the sequence is strictly increasing we show easily
that for any
we have
so the property can't be satisfied for
【E】Key Lemma:If
is a cumulative sequence with
and
for all
, then for every positive integer
, there is a unique positive integer
so that,
.
Proof:
Almost obvious. But if you still need one, take
to be the smallest positive integer so that
. Then, we must have
. If not, it would contradict the minimality of
.
Now, all we have to do is find an appropriate
and
. Take,
, which is clearly increasing. We need,
and
. Clearly this want us to consider the sequence
. It can be written as
where
. Obviously,
for all
. Thus,
is a cumulative sequence, and therefore, such a
always exists no matter what the choice of
is as long as it is a positive integer.
Remark: Something similar can not be said if it is replaced by
non-negative integers. Because then the sequence
would not be strictly increasing. Also, the crucial idea seems
kind of trivial to me if someone has ever done 'Binary Search' or
something like that in an algorithm course/in CSE,
whatever.
【F】 Denote
. Then
,
increases and we are searching for
such that
. It clearly exists and is unique.
Of course,
the fact the sequence
has integer terms is irrelevant; all that matters is that the
sequence
is unbounded.
Problem 2. Let
be an integer. Consider an
chessboard consisting of
unit squares. A configuration of
rooks on this board is peaceful if every row and
every column contains exactly one rook. Find the greatest positive
integer
such that, for each peaceful configuration of
rooks, there is a
square which does not contain a rook on any of its
unit squares.
【A】 will show that
.
First we show the upper bound. Take some
square for
. The rooks will be in row
, column
where
ranges from
to
and the row/column numbers are taken modulo
. It's hard to visualize but I'm bad at drawing
No
subsquares can be found in this arrangement, so
.
When
is not a perfect square, taking
such that
gives the same upper bound.
Now we show the lower bound. Let
Consider some column of
adjacent
subsquares. Only
rooks can be placed in this column, so there either exists an
empty subsquare or every subsquare has a rook in it. In the former
case, we can find an empty
subsquare. In the latter case, since rooks cannot share rows
or columns, one rook must be in the corner of its
subsquare, so we can find an empty
subsquare. Therefore, a
subsquare can be found regardless of configuration and we have
the lower bound as well.
【B】Let this maximum be
. It's obvious that
is nondecreasing.
For
, we have
(I omit my counterexample for redundancy's sake). Now we show
that there exists a
square in the board. Assume for the sake of contradiction that
in each
square there is at least one rook. There are
such squares, counting each rook at most
times. Therefore, there must be at least
rooks, a contradiction. Therefore,
For
, we may use the same logic. Since
, we have
; we assert that
. Again, assume for the sake of contradiction that in each
square there is at least one rook. Then there are
disjoint sets of squares and
rooks, so the pigeonhole principle tells us that there exists
an unoccupied square. Therefore,
.
Since
and
is nondecreasing, we have
for all
. Therefore,
.
【C】
Let
where
.
We will prove this
will be that one, we want.
Look to a rook in the uppermost row.
Select
consecutive columns which contain the previous rook in the
first row.
Now we can divide these columns in
squares and a
block above.
Because there are only
rooks yet to place in the
squares, there is such a square empty.
Hence our searched
is at least this value.
Now we prove there can always be a peaceful configuration with
equality:
We uses the coordinates of the latices from
to
Place a rook in the origin and in each next column we place a rook
higher than the column before until we can't do it
anymore.
Now, in the next column we place a rook in row with index
(
) and again going to the right by placing a rook
higher each time.
Each time we have to finish as we can't go
higher, we place it in the smallest row yet attainable and
continue the same process.
It is easy to see we made a peaceful configuration.
Assume there is a
square without a rook.
Looking to the full
columns ( a
block) of the square, we see except once the difference
between consecutive rooks is
and hence there isn't a gap of more than
.
As there is a rook in the uppermost and lowermost
square, the assumption leads to a contradiction.
【D】
If
, then
. In other words,
.
If
, then without loss of generality there is no rook in right
lower corner. We take lower row, right column and
squares
disjoint from them and from each other. Totally
sets, by pigeonhole principle one of them does not contain a
rook, and it is a square. If
, remove last row and last column, add a rook if necessary and
reduce the problem to
.
If
, then enumerate rows and columns from 0 to
and put rooks with coordinates
for
. Straightforward check shows that there is no empty
square. Example for
without empty
square is obtained from the example for
as above: remove last row and last column and add rook if
necessary.
【E】For
the largest such square has side length
for the following configuration:
Place rooks on the following squares:
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
Problem 3. Convex
quadrilateral
has
. Point
is the foot of the perpendicular from
to
. Points
and
lie on sides
and
, respectively, such that
lies inside triangle
and
Prove that line
is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle
.
【A】Is this a request for more detail? Notice that
where
, whence
Moreover,
Now, if we plug in the
in the right-hand side of the above, we obtain
Pulling out a factor of
from the rightmost term, we get something that is symmetric in
and
, as required.
【B】
Problem.
Convex quadrilateral
is cyclic. Point
is a point inside triangle
such that
. Points
and
lie on sides
and
, respectively, such that
lies inside triangle
and
. Prove that circumcenter of triangle
lie on
.
Solution (It is from idea of leader).
Let
be reflection of
through
. We have
and
are cyclic with center
. We must prove that perpendicular bisector of
and
are concurrent. Apply Menelaus theorem for triangle
we must prove that
or
Let
cuts perpendicular bisector of
at
and
cuts
at
. We see
From this we have
is tangent of
but
is circumcenter of triangle
so
is Apollonious circle for segment
. We are done.
【C】Let
and
be the centers of the circles. We need to prove that
Let
be he midpoint of
. Then
. Thenquadrilaterals
and
are inscribed. Since that
. Also
. As
it is sufficient to prove that
or
. Finally
(
because
(
) so
where
is the center of the circumcircle of
.
What do you think about problem? As for me it was really
surprisingly to see geometry with angle equalities and without many
circles on the 3rd position. And i hope leaders wrote '
lies inside triangle
' in bold - i waste a lot of time finding what is wrong
【D】Reflect
about
and
to get
, then
and
are cyclic (this gets rid of the ugly angle condition and
makes the diagram better since now
is the circumcenter of
). Furthermore,
and
.
Now let
be the midpoint of
and note that
is a straight line and perpendicular to
. Thus
. Simple angle chasing gives
, and
is the external angle bisector of
(same for the other side), useful information for
.
But now what? There is no way to find the other 2 angles of
(indeed, SHT). One very useful way to do this is to construct
another triangle where we can find the angles, and show they are
similar using length ratios. So you experiment around for a while,
and find that it is similar to the triangle formed by sticking the
isosceles triangles
together. Now you are almost done, just need to formalise a
bit.
Construct
such that
(by spiral similarities
). Now
and
(since
and
). So we also have
. Note that
, and the length ratio
. Thus
, and the rest is just angle chase.
【E】Here was a sketch of my solution. Not very elegant but quite
direct.

First by angle chasing one can show that
, so the tangent to
at
is perpendicular to
. Thus the circumcenter
of
lies on
.
Let the perpendicular bisector of
meet
at
now. It suffices to show that
is symmetric in
and
, because then
will be the circumcenter of
. To do this, set
and
. Use the Law of Cosines on
and
, using variables
and
. We get that
By the Angle Bisector Theorem,
, so the rest is a ~15 minute computation
now.
【A】
First of
all let points
be symmetric points of
wrt
. Now easily get
cyclic. And let
be the centers of these circles respectively. Now if you try
to prove by Menelaus theorem that the perp bisectors of
intersect on
(which is equivalent to the given problem) you will reduce the
problem to
. Now this reduces to
. Now this can be proven if you prove that
is the apollonious circle for segment
. If you intersect the perp bisector of
with
this reduces to
now you can angle chase that
which is trivial.