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Farkas' identities with quartic characters

Number Theory 2020-06-29 v1

Abstract

Farkas in \cite{Farkas} introduced an arithmetic function δ\delta and found an identity involving δ\delta and a sum of divisor function σ\sigma'. The first-named author and Raji in \cite{Guerzhoy} discussed a natural generalization of the identity by introducing a quadratic character χ\chi modulo a prime p3(mod4)p \equiv 3 \pmod 4. In particular, it turns out that, besides the original case p=3p=3 considered by Farkas, an exact analog (in a certain precise sense) of Farkas' identity happens only for p=7p=7. 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 p≢3(mod4)p \not \equiv 3 \pmod 4, the character χ\chi 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 χ\chi to be odd quartic, we produce something surprisingly similar to the results from \cite{Guerzhoy}: exact analogs of Farkas' identity happen exactly for p=5p=5 and 1313.

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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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