Let be a twice-differentiable real-valued function satisfying , where for all real . Is bounded?
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Consider the function ψ ( x ) = f 2 ( x ) + f ′ 2 ( x ) . Differentiating both sides, we get ψ ′ ( x ) = 2 f ′ ( x ) ( f ( x ) + f ′ ′ ( x ) ) = − 2 x g ( x ) f ′ ( x ) 2 , where, in the last step, we have used the given condition. Hence, we see that ψ ′ ( 0 ) = 0 , and since g ( x ) ≥ 0 , we find that the function ψ ( x ) attends its (finite) maximum value ψ ( 0 ) = C (say) at x = 0 . Hence ψ ( x ) ≤ C , ∀ x . Thus, 0 ≤ ∣ f ( x ) ∣ ≤ C , ∀ x ∈ R . Hence, ∣ f ( x ) ∣ is bounded.