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A Congruence for a Class of Arithmetic Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

M.V. Subbarao
M.V. Subbarao*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton
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There is considerable literature concerning the century old result that for arbitrary positive integers a and m,

1.1

where μ(m) is the usual Mobius function. For earlier work on this we refer to L.E. Dickson [4, pp. 84–86] and L. Carlitz [1,2]. Another reference not noted by the above authors is R. Vaidyanathaswamy [6], who noted that the left member of (1.1) represents the number of special fixed points of the m th power of a rational transformation of the n th degree.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , December 1966 , pp. 571 - 574
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

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