Subset coloring
Source: USAMO 2015 Problem 3
April 28, 2015
AMCUSAMOUSA(J)MO
Problem Statement
Let , where . Each of the subsets of is to be colored red or blue. (The subset itself is assigned a color and not its individual elements.) For any set , we then write for the number of subsets of that are blue.Determine the number of colorings that satisfy the following condition: for any subsets and of ,