Residue classes free of values of Euler's function
Number Theory
2020-05-06 v2
Abstract
We characterize which residue classes contain infinitely many totients (values of Euler's function) and which do not. We show that the union of all residue classes that are totient-free has asymptotic density 3/4, that is, almost all numbers that are 2 mod 4 are in a residue class that is totient-free. In the other direction, we show the existence of a positive density of odd numbers m, such that for any and any even number , the residue class contains infinitely many totients.
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@article{arxiv.2005.01078,
title = {Residue classes free of values of Euler's function},
author = {Kevin Ford and Sergei Konyagin and Carl Pomerance},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.01078},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Published in 1999, for Andrzej Schinzel's 60-th birthday. v2 - corrects a processing error that cut off the bottom of every page