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Putnam 2024 A4

  • Session A

Find all primes p>5p > 5 for which there exists an integer aa and an integer rr satisfying 1≤r≤p−11 \leq r \leq p-1 with the following property: the sequence 1,a,a2,…,ap−51,a,a^2,\dots,a^{p-5} can be rearranged to form a sequence b0,b1,b2,…,bp−5b_0,b_1,b_2,\dots,b_{p-5} such that bn−bn−1−rb_n-b_{n-1}-r is divisible by pp for 1≤n≤p−51 \leq n \leq p-5.

Curated text Kedlaya Putnam archive. Quoted with source.

Solutions

Human solution Solution 1 by Manjul Bhargava, Kiran Kedlaya and Lenny Ng

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