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Menon-type identities with additive characters

  • China Agricultural University

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Abstract

The classical Menon's identity [7] states that ∑a=1gcd⁡(a,n)=1ngcd⁡(a−1,n)=φ(n)τ(n), for every positive integer n, where φ(n) is the Euler's totient function and τ(n) is the number of positive divisors of n. Recently, Zhao and Cao [19] extended Menon's identity to Dirichlet characters: ∑a=1gcd⁡(a,n)=1ngcd⁡(a−1,n)χ(a)=φ(n)τ([Formula presented]), where χ is a Dirichlet character modulo n and d is the conductor of χ. In this paper, we extend Menon's identity to additive characters. A special case of our main result reads like this: ∑a=1gcd⁡(a,n)=1ngcd⁡(a−1,n)exp⁡([Formula presented])=exp⁡([Formula presented])τ(gcd⁡(k,n))φ(n) if ordp(n)−ordp(k)≠1 holds for any prime p dividing n, where for u∈Z, ordp(u) is the exponent of the highest power of p dividing u. For k=0, our result reduces to the classical Menon's identity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)373-385
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Number Theory
Volume192
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018.11

Keywords

  • Additive character
  • Arithmetical sum
  • Congruence
  • Euler's totient function
  • Greatest common divisor
  • Menon's identity
  • Ramanujan sum

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Mathematics

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