Problem

Source: 2023 Olympic Revenge Problem 1

Tags: arrows, Functional equation in R, algebra



Find all $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ continuous functions such that $\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} f(x) =\infty$ and $\forall x,y\in \mathbb{R}, |x-y|>\varphi, \exists n<\varphi^{2023}, n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $$f^n(x)+f^n(y)=x+y$$