Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/ii/paper-1/18h/iii/solution

For , the reduction of the cyclotomic polynomial has precisely the primitive th roots as its roots. If , the residue class of has multiplicative order in , so Lagrange's theorem gives . Conversely, if , cyclicity of the multiplicative group supplies an element of order , which is a root of ; any integer representative supplies . Hence
Three explicit examples are with ; with ; and with . Each prime is coprime to the relevant and has the stated congruence.

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