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HMMT 2019 T9

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Let p>2p>2 be a prime number. Fp[x]\mathbb{F}_{p}[x] is defined as the set of all polynomials in xx with coefficients in Fp\mathbb{F}_{p} (the integers modulo pp with usual addition and subtraction), so that two polynomials are equal if and only if the coefficients of xkx^{k} are equal in Fp\mathbb{F}_{p} for each nonnegative integer kk. For example, (x+2)(2x+3)=2x2+2x+1(x+2)(2 x+3)=2 x^{2}+2 x+1 in F5[x]\mathbb{F}_{5}[x] because the corresponding coefficients are equal modulo 5 . Let f,g∈Fp[x]f, g \in \mathbb{F}_{p}[x]. The pair (f,g)(f, g) is called compositional if

f(g(x))≡xp2−xf(g(x)) \equiv x^{p^{2}}-x

in Fp[x]\mathbb{F}_{p}[x]. Find, with proof, the number of compositional pairs (in terms of pp ).

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