Euler's φ Function on Arithmetic Progressions (Q3130170)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1002560
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1002560 |
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Euler's φ Function on Arithmetic Progressions (English)
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28 May 1997
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values of the Euler phi-function
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inequalities
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arithmetic progressions
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0.8001892566680908
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0.7947299480438232
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0.7946283221244812
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It is known that \(\varphi(30n+1)>\varphi(30n)\) for all \(n\leq 2\cdot 10^7\). The author points out that this kind of numerical evidence may be extremely misleading. In fact, the author proves that if \(a, b, c, d\) are nonnegative integers with \(a, c>0\) and \(ad-bc\neq 0\) then there exists a positive integer \(n\) for which \(\varphi(an+b)<\varphi(cn+d)\).
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