Nonprincipal Dirichlet character
ID: nonprincipal-dirichlet-character
A nonprincipal Dirichlet character differs from the principal Dirichlet character. Equivalently, it is a nontrivial character on the unit group, so its sum over one full residue period is zero by character orthogonality. Its Dirichlet L-function is entire by Mellin continuation of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function.
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