Meanings
nounDirichlet character (plural Dirichlet characters)
plural Dirichlet characters
- analytic number theoryA complex-valued arithmetic function χ:ℤ→ℂ that satisfies the following conditions for some positive integer m and all integers a and b
2)
1 more example
1) χ(ab)=χ(a)χ(b);
- 3) χ(a+m)=χ(a).
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