The set of k-units modulo n

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2022.15.367MaRDI QIDQ2109075zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John H. Castillo, Jhony Fernando Caranguay Mainguez

Publication date 20 December 2022

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06812

zbMATH Keywords

\(k\)-unitCarmichael generalized numberCarmichael numberdiagonal propertydiagonal unitKnödel numberunit set of a ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiplicative structure; Euclidean algorithm; greatest common divisors (11A05) Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Power residues, reciprocity (11A15) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60)

Review text

Given a ring with identity \(R\), the authors define the concept of \(k\)-unit of \(R\) (for \(0<k\in\mathbb{N}\)) as follows: An element \(a\in R\) is a \(k\)-unit provided \(a^k=1\). Note that this is just the well-known definition of a \(k\)-th root of unity, so one wonders about why the authors felt the need to use another name for this concept. The paper is then devoted to studying the number of the so-called \(k\)-units in the ring of integers modulo \(n\) that they denote by \(du_k(n)\). Due to this shift in notation and naming, it is hard to assess the originalty or quality of the results. This reviewer has the feeling that should the authors taken into account the idea of \(k\)-th root of unity and its relation to cyclotomic polynomials, they would have found out that what they say is either known or of little interest.

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