Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/ii/paper-4/1g/solution

A Carmichael number is a composite such that for every coprime to . For , choose by CRT a number whose residue mod is a primitive root; its order divides . If , choose instead a primitive root modulo ; then , impossible because . Thus is square-free. Write . Since , also ; compositeness gives , hence and . This is Korselt criterion.

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