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Elementary Evaluation of Convolution Sums involving primitive Dirichlet Characters for a Class of positive Integers

Number Theory 2016-09-07 v1

Abstract

We extend the results obtained by E. Ntienjem to all positive integers. Let \EuFrakN\EuFrak{N} be the subset of N\mathbb{N} consisting of 2ν\,2^{\nu}\mho, where ν\nu is in {0,1,2,3}\{0,1,2,3\} and \mho is a squarefree finite product of distinct odd primes. We discuss the evaluation of the convolution sum, (l,m)N2αl+βm=nσ(l)σ(m)\underset{\substack{ {(l,m)\in\mathbb{N}^{2}} {\alpha\,l+\beta\,m=n} } }{\sum}\sigma(l)\sigma(m), when αβ\alpha\beta is in N\EuFrakN\mathbb{N}\setminus\EuFrak{N}. The evaluation of convolution sums belonging to this class is achieved by applying modular forms and primitive Dirichlet characters. In addition, we revisit the evaluation of the convolution sums for αβ=9\alpha\beta=9, 1616, 1818, 2525, 3636. If αβ0(mod4)\alpha\beta\equiv 0 \pmod{4}, we determine natural numbers a,ba,b and use the evaluated convolution sums together with other known convolution sums to carry out the number of representations of nn by the octonary quadratic forms a(x12+x22+x32+x42)+b(x52+x62+x72+x82)a\,(x_{1}^{2} + x_{2}^{2} + x_{3}^{2} + x_{4}^{2})+ b\,(x_{5}^{2} + x_{6}^{2} + x_{7}^{2} + x_{8}^{2}). Similarly, if αβ0(mod3)\alpha\beta\equiv 0 \pmod{3}, we compute natural numbers c,dc,d and make use of the evaluated convolution sums together with other known convolution sums to determine the number of representations of nn by the octonary quadratic forms c(x12+x1x2+x22+x32+x3x4+x42)+d(x52+x5x6+x62+x72+x7x8+x82)c\,(\,x_{1}^{2} + x_{1}x_{2} + x_{2}^{2} + x_{3}^{2} + x_{3}x_{4} + x_{4}^{2}\,) + d\,(\,x_{5}^{2} + x_{5}x_{6} + x_{6}^{2} + x_{7}^{2} + x_{7}x_{8} + x_{8}^{2}\,). We illustrate our method with the explicit examples αβ=325\alpha\beta = 3^{2}\cdot 5, αβ=243\alpha\beta = 2^{4}\cdot 3, αβ=252\alpha\beta = 2\cdot 5^{2} and αβ=26\alpha\beta = 2^{6}, .

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@article{arxiv.1609.01343,
  title  = {Elementary Evaluation of Convolution Sums involving primitive Dirichlet Characters for a Class of positive Integers},
  author = {Ebénézer Ntienjem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01343},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

30 pages, 2 figures, 8 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1607.01082