CIIM 2015 Problem 5
Source:
August 9, 2016
CIIM 2015undergraduatefunction
Problem Statement
There are people seated on a circular table that have seats numerated from 1 to clockwise. Let be a fix integer with . The people can change their seats. There are two types of moves permitted:1. Each person moves to the next seat clockwise.
2. Only the ones in seats 1 and exchange their seats.Determine, in function of and , the number of possible configurations of people in the table that can be attain by using a sequence of permitted moves.