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Problem - 02 - National Math Camp 2021 Number Theory Exam - "Group theory"

Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 4:27 pm
by Anindya Biswas
Let $p$ be a prime number. We call a subset $S$ of $\{1,2,\cdots,p-1\}$ "good" if it satisfies the property that for every $x,y\in S, xy\text{ mod }{p}$ is also in $S$. How many "good" sets are there?

Re: Problem - 02 - National Math Camp 2021 Number Theory Exam - "Group theory"

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:28 am
by Naeem Mashkur
Notice that p is congruent to a modulo b, Where 'a' belongs to {1,2,3....,p-1} and b is any positive integer. Also notice that those integer{1,2,3....p-1} are situated in subset S. So, we must find a subset S for every p.

Re: Problem - 02 - National Math Camp 2021 Number Theory Exam - "Group theory"

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:11 pm
by Nayer_Sharar
ig it may have something to do with primitive roots

Re: Problem - 02 - National Math Camp 2021 Number Theory Exam - "Group theory"

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2022 3:07 pm
by Zeta
It's graph theory.