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Mock characters and the Kronecker symbol

Number Theory 2017-01-06 v2

Abstract

We introduce and study a family of functions we call the "mock characters". These functions satisfy a number of interesting properties, and of all completely multiplicative arithmetic functions seem to come as close as possible to being Dirichlet characters. Along the way we prove a few new results concerning the behavior of the Kronecker symbol.

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@article{arxiv.1608.03957,
  title  = {Mock characters and the Kronecker symbol},
  author = {Jean-Paul Allouche and Leo Goldmakher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03957},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Strengthened Proposition 2.2 from previous version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T15:19:00.442Z