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KöMaL problem A, 2017

Geometry Difficulty 8.0 Shortlist Find the answer Hungary

For which pairs (m,n)(m,n) does there exist an injective function f ⁣:R2→R2f\colon \mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}^2 under which the image of every regular mm-gon is a regular nn-gon. (Note that m,n≥3m,n\ge 3, and that by a regular NN-gon we mean the union of the boundary segments, not the closed polygonal region.)

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