Quadratic residues and related permutations and identities

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Abstract: Let p be an odd prime. In this paper we investigate quadratic residues modulo p and related permutations, congruences and identities. If a1<ldots<a(p1)/2 are all the quadratic residues modulo p among 1,ldots,p1, then the list 12p,ldots,((p1)/2)2p (with kp the least nonnegative residue of k modulo p) is a permutation of a1,ldots,a(p1)/2, and we show that the sign of this permutation is 1 or (1)(h(p)+1)/2 according as pequiv3pmod8 or pequiv7pmod8, where h(p) is the class number of the imaginary quadratic field mathbbQ(sqrtp). To achieve this, we evaluate the product prod1lej<kle(p1)/2(cotpij2/pcotpik2/p) via Dirichlet's class number formula and Galois theory. We also obtain some new identities for the sine and cosine functions; for example, we determine the exact value of prod_{1le j<kle p-1}cospifrac{aj^2+bjk+ck^2}p for any a,b,cinmathbbZ with ac(a+b+c)otequiv0pmodp.









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