Find all pair of natural numbers such that and , where is Euler's function.
Mongolian Mathematical Olympiad
Solution
Let . , (, -odd natural numbers.) Assume that and let be the least number such that .
Set , where ( is nonnegative whole number, is odd natural number). Since is divisor of odd number, is odd too.
Now by Euler's theorem and . (1)
Combining it with given condition we get and . Since , from where follows .
From and it follows . By (1) we get
but it contradicts to .
Since the case that leads also to contradiction, we conclude that
or .
If then or .
Consequently we get 3 solutions: .
If then . Finally, we conclude that there are
only 3 solutions .
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