Let be an arithmetic progression with integer terms. Find all polynomials with integer coefficients such that is a whole number for any natural .
Solution
Let . Then for any natural number the congruence holds. Therefore from follows . Let's choose such that . Then we have and
, and it implies . If then there exist infinitely
many with property (*). This contradicts given condition that the fraction
is integer and above proved implication. So constant. Since there
exists such that , we can write . Thus
starting from a number inequality always holds. In case
all odd then . In other cases .
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