Farkas' identities with quartic characters
Abstract
Farkas in \cite{Farkas} introduced an arithmetic function and found an identity involving and a sum of divisor function . The first-named author and Raji in \cite{Guerzhoy} discussed a natural generalization of the identity by introducing a quadratic character modulo a prime . In particular, it turns out that, besides the original case considered by Farkas, an exact analog (in a certain precise sense) of Farkas' identity happens only for . Recently, for quadratic characters of small composite moduli, Williams in \cite{Williams} found a finite list of identities of similar flavor using different methods. Clearly, if , the character is either not quadratic or even. In this paper, we prove that, under certain conditions, no analogs of Farkas' identity exist for even characters. Assuming to be odd quartic, we produce something surprisingly similar to the results from \cite{Guerzhoy}: exact analogs of Farkas' identity happen exactly for and .
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@article{arxiv.1905.06506,
title = {Farkas' identities with quartic characters},
author = {Pavel Guerzhoy and Ka Lun Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.06506},
year = {2020}
}
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