If and are coprime, every divisor of is uniquely with and . Hence, for a multiplicative arithmetic function ,
The Möbius function is if a prime square divides , and if is a product of distinct primes. The Euler totient function counts residues modulo coprime to . From the prime factorizations,
Both sides of the second identity are multiplicative, and at a prime power ,
Therefore
Maschke's theorem says that every invariant subspace of a finite-dimensional complex representation of a finite group has an invariant complement. Average any projection over the group to make it equivariant. Induction on dimension therefore decomposes every representation into irreducibles.
The character of a representation is . For a -set , the permutation representation has basis , and its character is the number of fixed points:
For the regular action,
The multiplicity of an irreducible is the character inner product
so
If , Schur lemma gives
For , this is .
Now suppose off the identity. The multiplicity of in is
Thus is a nonnegative integer and is that many copies of the regular representation. Finally,
so

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