Generalizing Giuga's conjecture

Details Generalizing Giuga's conjecture Generalizing Giuga's conjecture

2011-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3483v1

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Number Theory

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In 1950 G. Giuga studied the congruence $\sum_{j=1}^{n-1} j^{n-1} \equiv -1$ (mod $n$) and conjectured that it was only satisfied by prime numbers. In this work we generalize Giuga's ideas considering, for each $k \in \mathbb{N}$, the congruence $\sum_{j=1}^{n-1} j^{k(n-1)} \equiv -1$ (mod $n$). It particular, it is proved that a pair $(n,k)\in \mathbb{N}^2$ (with composite $n$) satisfies the congruence if and only if $n$ is a Giuga Number and $ \lambda(n)/\gcd(\lambda(n),n-1)$ divides $k$. In passing, we establish some new characterizations of Giuga Numbers.

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