A generalization of Menon's identity with Dirichlet characters

Abstract

The classical Menon's identity [7] states that \begin{equation*}\label{oldbegin1} \sum_{\substack{a\in\Bbb Z_n^\ast }}\gcd(a -1,n)=φ(n) σ_{0} (n), \end{equation*} where for a positive integer $n$, $\Bbb Z_n^\ast$ is the group of units of the ring $\Bbb Z_n=\Bbb Z/n\Bbb Z$, $\gcd(\ ,\ )$ represents the greatest common divisor, $φ(n)$ is the Euler's totient function and $σ_{k} (n) =\sum_{d|n } d^{k}$ is the divisor function. In this paper, we generalize Menon's identity with Dirichlet characters in the following way: \begin{equation*} \sum_{\substack{a\in\Bbb Z_n^\ast b_1, ..., b_k\in\Bbb Z_n}} \gcd(a-1,b_1, ..., b_k, n)χ(a)=φ(n)σ_k\left(\frac{n}{d}\right), \end{equation*} where $k$ is a non-negative integer and $χ$ is a Dirichlet character modulo $n$ whose conductor is $d$. Our result can be viewed as an extension of Zhao and Cao's result [16] to $k>0$. It can also be viewed as an extension of Sury's result [12] to Dirichlet characters.

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