2006 USAMO Problems/Problem 3

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For integral $m$ , let $p(m)$ be the greatest prime divisor of $m$ . By convention, we set $p(\pm 1)=1$ and $p(0)=\infty$ . Find all polynomial $f$ with integer coefficients such that the sequence

$(p(f(n^2))-2n)_{n\ge 0}$

is bounded above. (In particular, this requires $f(n^2)\neq 0$ for $n\ge 0$ )

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2006 USAMO Problems/Problem 3

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