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USAMO 2015 — Days 1 and 2 Question 3

USAMO · USAMO 2015 — Days 1 and 2

Question 3

Let $S = \left\{ 1,2,\dots,n \right\}$, where $n \ge 1$. Each of the $2^n$ subsets of $S$ is to be colored red or blue. (The subset itself is assigned a color and not its individual elements.) For any set $T \subseteq S$, we then write $f(T)$ for the number of subsets of $T$ that are blue. Determine the number of colorings that satisfy the following condition: for any subsets $T_1$ and $T_2$ of $S$, $$ f(T_1)f(T_2) = f(T_1 \cup T_2)f(T_1 \cap T_2). $$

Proposed by Gabriel Carroll (credited by Evan Chen).