Problem

Source: Azerbaijan Math Olympiad Training

Tags: number theory, TST



Consider an odd prime number $p$ and $p$ consecutive positive integers $m_1,m_2,…,m_p$. Choose a permutation $\sigma$ of $1,2,…,p$ . Show that there exist two different numbers $k,l\in{(1,2,…,p)}$ such that $p\mid{m_k.m_{\sigma(k)}-m_l.m_{\sigma(l)}}$