For an even Dirichlet character , the Kubota-Leopoldt function interpolates generalized Bernoulli values with the relevant Euler factor and Teichmüller character adjustment. If , it can be encoded by an integral power series. For , the -ramified convention is . The trivial character requires separate treatment of the pole.
For two real primitive nonprincipal Dirichlet characters with nonprincipal product, the real zeros in this interval are counted with multiplicity. The logarithmic-derivative coefficients of are . The global partial-fraction expansion of a Dirichlet L-function logarithmic derivative therefore gives if two nearby real zeros exist. Put , choose small, and test . The right side is negative, a contradiction.
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Only the inertia group invariants enter an Artin L-function local factor. A Frobenius automorphism lift acts unambiguously on this subspace, since other lifts differ by inertia. For an unramified one-dimensional group representation, the factor is ; for a ramified one-dimensional group representation, the invariant subspace is zero and the factor is one. This explains the zero values used at conductor primes by quadratic Dirichlet characters.
Multiplicativity of the Legendre symbol Created 2026-09-29 Updated 2026-10-18
For an odd prime and any integers , the Legendre symbol obeys
In particular, if , then , where is a modular multiplicative inverse. Multiplication by a nonzero square also leaves the Legendre symbol unchanged: for .[ref]
The subgroup and coset arguments under quadratic residue and quadratic nonresidue prove the sign rule without computing a large power: square times square is square, square times nonsquare is nonsquare, and nonsquare times nonsquare is square. If either factor is zero modulo , both sides of the identity vanish. On , the Legendre symbol is thus a group homomorphism to whose kernel of a group homomorphism is the quadratic residue subgroup. Viewed on all integers, it is a completely multiplicative function and a Dirichlet character modulo .
Figure 1.
Products modulo seven: the Legendre symbol reduces a six-by-six table to sign multiplication
. Rows and columns put quadratic residues before quadratic nonresidues . Every cell displays the product modulo seven and its Legendre symbol. The four blocks have signs , showing the subgroup and its other coset. Details.
For an original calculation, factor the numerator . Modulo seven, , agreeing with . Modulo eleven, the signs are instead , giving , agreeing with . The same factorization can therefore certify different square behavior at different prime numbers.
Alternatively, Euler's criterion gives modulo . For nonzero factors both sides correspond to signs in . Since is odd, these signs are distinct modulo , so the modular congruence proves the asserted equality of integers, not merely an equality of representatives.
Nebentypus character 2026-10-14
A Dirichlet character modulo specifying the displayed transformation law is the nebentypus of a modular form. The action of forces for a nonzero form. It describes a character eigenspace of the diamond action rather than an additional analytic condition at modular cusps.
Newform 2026-10-14
A newform is a normalized Hecke eigenform in the new subspace of cusp forms. Its weight, level and Dirichlet character are part of its specification. For a newform, its Fourier coefficients equal its eigenvalues of Hecke operators.
Nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For every nonprincipal Dirichlet character, . A nonreal character is covered by Euler product positivity for L-function nonvanishing at height zero, since its squared character is nonprincipal.
For a real character, suppose . The simple zeta pole would cancel, making an entire function. Its nonnegative zeta-times-real-L coefficients satisfy and . Termwise derivatives at two give . The Taylor series of this entire function at two converges at zero. Every term there is nonnegative, and Tonelli theorem identifies its sum as
The last series diverges because all square coefficients are at least one. This contradiction proves the claim. It is the positive-coefficient mechanism behind the more general Landau theorem for a Dirichlet series with nonnegative coefficients.
For a nonprincipal Dirichlet character, the line is zero-free. Euler product positivity for L-function nonvanishing proves this for nonreal characters at every height, and for all characters at nonzero height, where a possibly principal squared-character factor has no pole. The point of height zero is the nonvanishing of nonprincipal Dirichlet L-functions at one. A principal L-function has a pole at one, and no zeros at the other points of this line.
Odd Dirichlet character 2026-10-07
A Dirichlet character with odd parity satisfies , so its extension to integer arguments is an odd function.
p-adic L-function Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
A p-adic L-function is a -adic analytic function or measure interpolating suitably adjusted special values of an L-function. The Kubota-Leopoldt p-adic L-function is the basic example attached to a Dirichlet character.
Fix a positive integer and an integer coprime to . We use Dirichlet characters modulo , extended by zero on integers not coprime to , and write for the principal Dirichlet character. For a nonprincipal Dirichlet character, the sum over one complete period is zero. Its partial sums are therefore . Partial summation gives
The integral converges locally uniformly there, so these Dirichlet L-functions are holomorphic at one. On the other hand,
has a simple pole at one, with residue .
The assumed nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one for real Dirichlet characters also excludes vanishing for nonreal ones. To prove this, form the product over all Dirichlet characters
Use the logarithm supplied by the absolutely convergent Euler product. The Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters yields
Thus . If a nonreal Dirichlet character had , its distinct conjugate would also have a zero there, since . These two zeros would outweigh the single pole of the principal factor; all other factors are bounded near one. It would follow that as , contradicting the lower bound. Together with the assumption for real Dirichlet characters, this proves for every nonprincipal Dirichlet character.
The first-degree part of the Euler product logarithm gives
The omitted terms are bounded uniformly, since . For each nonprincipal factor, its logarithm remains bounded: choose a holomorphic logarithm near the now established nonzero value ; the Euler-product branch differs from it by a fixed integral multiple of on a sufficiently small real interval. For the principal factor,
Applying Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters again gives
The right side diverges as , so the arithmetic progression contains infinitely many primes. This proves Dirichlet's theorem on arithmetic progressions: every reduced residue class modulo contains infinitely many primes. The argument also covers and , when there need not be a nonreal character.
For the sharper statement about reciprocal primes in a fixed arithmetic progression, use the given prime-counting function asymptotic with fixed:
The second equivalence follows by integration by parts in the logarithmic integral function. Partial summation yields
For any , choose a fixed so large that the relative error in is at most for . The initial integral is a constant, while the remaining integral lies between
The boundary term is . Divide by , let , and then let . We obtain
Only a relative asymptotic is deduced from the given information; an additive error, or uniformity for a growing modulus , would require additional estimates.
Extend by zero to integers not coprime to , and write for its Gauss sum of a Dirichlet character. We use the analytic branch of that is positive when is positive imaginary. With the convention , the Gaussian Fourier transform and its differentiated version are
The first formula follows by completing the square, first on the imaginary axis and then by analytic continuation; the second follows by differentiating the Fourier transform in . All the functions are Schwartz functions on the real axis.
For completeness, the finite Fourier transform of a primitive Dirichlet character satisfies
For a unit this is substitution by its inverse. If , primitivity supplies a unit with : otherwise the character would factor through modulus . Multiplication by fixes the additive exponential but multiplies the sum by , so the sum vanishes. This proves the identity also on nonunits. Finite Parseval identity now gives , since exactly frequencies have nonzero character values. In particular this Gauss sum of a Dirichlet character is nonzero.
Apply Poisson summation to each residue class: . Multiply by and sum over . The formulas above give the two character theta transformations
and
In the odd case the prefactor originally reads ; using explains the factor . Opposite parity makes the corresponding series identically zero by pairing . This is why the weight-three-halves series is needed for odd Dirichlet characters.
To deduce the products from these transformations, use two specific primitive Dirichlet characters. The even character takes values on modulo twelve. It is primitive: its values do not factor through six or four, hence through no proper divisor of twelve. Its Gauss sum of a Dirichlet character is . Put
The even transformation gives ; also , since each nonzero term has . Thus transforms as a weight-twelve modular form under the generators of the modular group. It is holomorphic and starts with , so it is a normalized cusp form. The proof in Question 1 shows , giving . In particular has no interior zeros, by the valence formula for the modular group.
The Serre derivative argument in Question 2 gives . Hence . The analytic product is nonzero and has the same logarithmic derivative, since . Therefore is constant on the connected complex upper half-plane; its limit at infinity is one. This proves , without assuming either of the product identities being deduced. Pair the terms in , choosing representatives . Since , we get
This is the Euler pentagonal identity, derived by the character theta proof of the eta product.
For the second product use the odd primitive character , , with Gauss sum of a Dirichlet character . Set
The odd transformation gives and the series gives . Thus is another normalized weight-twelve cusp form, and . Because is nonzero, has eighth power one, so it is constant; its leading coefficient fixes it to one. Pairing positive and negative odd integers now gives
Since , the Jacobi cubic product identity follows:
All pairings and differentiations take place in locally uniformly convergent theta functions or products on .
Fix a modulus and a residue class with . The Dirichlet characters modulo are the one-dimensional characters of a representation of , extended by zero on nonunits. Let be the principal Dirichlet character.
For every nonprincipal Dirichlet character the partial sums are bounded: the sum over a full period is zero, and a remaining incomplete period has bounded length. Partial summation therefore continues its Dirichlet L-function holomorphically to by
This shows in particular that it has no pole at one. By contrast
has a simple pole there. We use the stipulated nonvanishing for every real nonprincipal Dirichlet character, and establish the remaining nonvanishing as follows.
For real , take the product over all Dirichlet characters. The Euler product logarithms and Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters give
Thus this product is real and at least one. If a nonreal Dirichlet character had , complex conjugation would also give . These are distinct factors. Two zeros and only one possible simple pole force the whole product to tend to zero as , contradicting the lower bound. Hence all nonprincipal Dirichlet characters have , under the given real-character assumption.
For , absolute convergence of each Euler product gives
with bounded remainder as : the terms of prime-power exponent at least two have total modulus at most . Since a nonprincipal defines a holomorphic function that is nonzero near one, its Euler-product logarithm differs from a local holomorphic logarithm by a fixed integer multiple of on a short real interval. It is therefore bounded there. For the principal Dirichlet character the pole instead gives
Apply the Dirichlet character orthogonality relation at each prime. The prime-character sum near one yields
This tends to infinity. A finite set of primes would have a bounded sum as , so every coprime residue class contains infinitely many primes. This proves the Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions from the specified assumption. In fact it proves divergence of the corresponding reciprocal-prime series and gives Dirichlet density .
Finally, for real each prime satisfies
The integrands are nonnegative, so Tonelli theorem permits summation inside the integral. At a fixed , exactly primes from the residue class have entered. Therefore
Both sides are finite, since they are bounded respectively by and . The values of a counting function at its isolated jump endpoints do not change this integral.
The global partial-fraction expansion of the zeta logarithmic derivative, with zeros counted with multiplicity and paired summands retained, is
For a nonprincipal primitive Dirichlet character of Dirichlet conductor , put or according as or . Its completed Dirichlet L-function is
The global partial-fraction expansion of a Dirichlet L-function logarithmic derivative is
where and the zeros are the nontrivial zeros of the completion. These expansions follow from genus-one Hadamard factorization; the combined terms converge locally normally. The primitive principal Dirichlet character has Dirichlet conductor one and gives the zeta formula. If a Dirichlet character modulo is induced by a primitive Dirichlet character of Dirichlet conductor , its missing Euler factors add
to the primitive logarithmic derivative. This correction is on the real interval .
The form needed here is Landau theorem for two real Dirichlet characters: there is an absolute such that, if are real primitive nonprincipal Dirichlet characters of Dirichlet conductors and their product is nonprincipal, then
counting multiplicity. In particular, two distinct primitive real Dirichlet characters cannot each have a zero in that interval.
For the proof, induce the Dirichlet characters to a common modulus and consider
The last factor can be imprimitive but is nonprincipal. For , logarithmic differentiation of the Euler products gives
This positivity is the reason to include all four factors: each real Dirichlet character takes values in , including at ramified primes.
The real partial-fraction identity for a primitive completion has no residual real constant. Indeed, after taking real parts in its Hadamard derivative, the constant is determined to be zero by the functional-equation symmetry of its modulus across the critical line; the zero kernels there cancel in reflected pairs. Consequently
For all the zero kernels are nonnegative, and the gamma term is bounded. The missing Euler factors have the previously bounded correction. Combining the four logarithmic derivatives, and retaining any two candidate real zeros of , therefore gives
Zeros in any other factors only decrease this upper bound. The sole pole term comes from zeta.
Put and choose so small that . If both , take . The upper bound is then at most
a contradiction. Taking proves the theorem, including the multiplicity assertion.
A Siegel zero is a possible exceptional real zero of the -function of a real nonprincipal primitive Dirichlet character, in the very narrow zero-free-region exception near one. Fix a sufficiently small absolute threshold and call a zero exceptional here when
Take and also smaller than the constant in the classical zero-free region for Dirichlet L-functions. Such a zero, if present, is real and simple; its existence is not asserted. This choice fixes the constants consistently for the requested separation conclusions.
For two different real primitive Dirichlet characters of the same modulus , their product cannot be principal: otherwise they agree on all units and hence are the same Dirichlet character. Their two exceptional zeros would both lie above , contradicting Landau's theorem. Thus at most one real primitive Dirichlet character modulo has an exceptional zero.
For distinct primitive Dirichlet conductors , the product of their Dirichlet characters is again nonprincipal; otherwise their common induced Dirichlet character would have two different primitive Dirichlet conductors. Suppose . Then
Again both zeros violate the two-zero prohibition. Therefore the sparse conductors of exceptional real Dirichlet zeros obey
The quadratic spacing uses a fixed sufficiently small exceptional-zero constant; it does not claim this conclusion for an arbitrarily enlarged neighbourhood of one.
For a positive integer , a Dirichlet character modulo is a group homomorphism , extended periodically to the integers and set equal to zero on integers not coprime to . Its nonzero values are roots of unity. For , its Dirichlet L-function is the absolutely convergent Dirichlet series
Complete multiplicativity of proves the Euler product by expanding each factor as a geometric series and applying unique integer factorization; absolute convergence justifies these rearrangements.
Suppose is a nonprincipal Dirichlet character. Choose a unit with . Multiplication by permutes a complete residue system, so , and the sum is zero. Consequently is bounded: complete periods contribute zero and the remaining incomplete period has at most terms. The Abel summation formula gives, initially for ,
For the integral converges, locally uniformly together with its derivatives in , because on a compact set with the differentiated integrands are bounded by constants times . Thus holomorphy of a Dirichlet series from bounded partial sums proves
For a nonreal , the character is also nonprincipal. The supplied logarithmic Euler product yields, for real ,
At a prime dividing the numerator is . At every other prime put ; then the numerator is . This Euler product positivity for L-function nonvanishing proves that the product inside the logarithm is at least one. If , its holomorphy would give . Meanwhile is bounded near one and the Riemann zeta function has a simple pole there. The product would therefore be and tend to zero, a contradiction.
For a real nonprincipal , suppose instead that . The product would then be holomorphic on the whole half-plane , because the zero cancels the only zeta pole there. In it has coefficients
These are nonnegative zeta-times-real-L coefficients. They are multiplicative, and their prime-power values are if , one or zero according as is even or odd if , and one if . In particular and for every .
The Taylor series of the assumed holomorphic about converges in the disk . Termwise differentiation of its absolutely convergent Dirichlet series at gives . Evaluate the Taylor series at and apply the Tonelli theorem to the resulting nonnegative terms:
This contradicts holomorphy at . The argument is the positive-coefficient mechanism of the Landau theorem for a Dirichlet series with nonnegative coefficients, with the needed step proved explicitly. Combining the real and nonreal cases gives the nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one:
Now let be coprime to . The Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions asserts that infinitely many prime numbers satisfy . To prove it, separate the first-power terms in the given logarithmic Euler product:
For , the remainder is bounded uniformly by
For a nonprincipal character, holomorphy and nonvanishing near one give a local holomorphic logarithm. Along a short real interval to the right of one, this logarithm and the supplied continuous logarithm differ by a fixed integer multiple of . Hence the prime-character sum near one is bounded:
For the principal Dirichlet character ,
The latter follows from the simple zeta pole and the bounded remainder. Finally Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters gives
Here is the Euler totient function. The right-hand side tends to infinity as , whereas a finite set of primes would give a bounded left-hand side. Therefore
A weight- meromorphic modular form satisfies , while . The factors cancel in , giving a -invariant meromorphic n-differential on the complex upper half-plane.
Away from elliptic points and cusps, descend this differential through local inverse branches of the quotient map. At an elliptic point of effective stabilizer order , choose a coordinate in which the stabilizer acts by , and use downstairs. If the lifted coefficient has order , invariance forces to be divisible by . The descended differential has integer order
Indeed pulls back to . At a modular cusp of width , the coordinate gives . Therefore
Both formulas provide meromorphic extensions over the omitted points, producing the unique differential with the prescribed pullback on the compactified modular curve.
For the character-valued question, write and let be the chosen nonzero meromorphic form. The quotient of two forms with the same weight and Dirichlet character is a meromorphic function on . At an interior point with effective elliptic order (one at ordinary points), let be the vanishing order of the lifted . At a cusp let be its order in the width coordinate; this can be fractional because of the character multiplier. Multiplying by a meromorphic function changes these orders by and , respectively. Interior holomorphy requires a nonnegative order, while cusp vanishing requires a strictly positive order. The exact divisor is consequently
Only finitely many coefficients are nonzero. The order inequalities are equivalent to . Division by proves the reverse inclusion, so the Riemann-Roch space gives
This extends the cusp-form divisor presentation to elliptic points and character multipliers.
Choose a nonzero meromorphic one-differential on , and let be its weight-two pullback. For , the interior order is and the cusp order is . The elliptic orders are one, two or three, so adding six to changes each interior floor by , and each cusp ceiling by . The valence formula for the modular group for says , where . Thus
The degrees tend to infinity. For sufficiently large , the Riemann-Roch theorem therefore gives
The periodic formula obtained this way is an eventual formula. For small , the exact answer includes the Riemann-Roch correction ; it should not silently be discarded without the large-degree hypothesis.
For , the Euler products are
The Dirichlet character is completely multiplicative, and unique prime factorization expands each finite product into the terms of the corresponding Dirichlet series supported on those primes. Absolute convergence permits passage to all primes. More strongly, the absolutely convergent Euler product logarithm gives
since the sum of absolute values is bounded by .
We prove nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one, including real Dirichlet characters. If is nonprincipal modulo , periodicity and the given Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters bound by . Partial summation gives
which is holomorphic for by locally uniform convergence, including after differentiation. The principal Dirichlet character instead has
with a simple pole at one.
For a nonreal Dirichlet character, consider . For real , its Euler product logarithm is
The given character inversion with makes each inner sum either or zero, so . If for a nonreal Dirichlet character, then as well, since their values at real are conjugate. These are two distinct factors. All nonprincipal factors are holomorphic at one, and only the principal factor has a simple pole. Their two zeros would force , a contradiction.
For a real nonprincipal Dirichlet character, suppose . Then is holomorphic throughout : the supplied continuation of the Riemann zeta function has no other pole there, and the zero cancels the pole at one. On its Dirichlet series has coefficients
To check the sign explicitly, for a prime power the local sum is if , is for even and for odd if , and is if . Multiplication over prime factors proves nonnegativity and . Also , so termwise derivatives at are justified by absolute convergence:
The disc lies in . Its Taylor series therefore converges at , and Tonelli theorem gives
This contradicts holomorphy at . It is the positive-coefficient argument behind the Landau theorem for a Dirichlet series with nonnegative coefficients, proved here rather than invoked. Thus for every nonprincipal Dirichlet character.
It remains to detect the primes. For real , the Euler product logarithm satisfies
uniformly as : terms with are bounded in absolute value by . For a nonprincipal Dirichlet character, a holomorphic logarithm of exists near one by the nonvanishing just proved. On a short real interval it differs from the Euler product logarithm by a fixed multiple of , so the prime sum stays bounded. For the principal Dirichlet character, the simple pole instead gives
Applying the supplied Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters for a reduced residue class now yields
The right side tends to infinity, whereas a finite set of primes would give a bounded left side. Therefore every residue class coprime to contains infinitely many primes, proving the Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions.
The three quadratic subfields are , and , with respective fundamental discriminants . Their associated quadratic Dirichlet characters are the Kronecker symbols
The regular representation of is the direct sum of the trivial character and these three nontrivial characters. At an unramified prime the character is the sign by which Frobenius automorphism acts on the square root defining its quadratic subfield; at a ramified prime the linear character has no inertia group invariants. The local factor of an Artin L-function consequently gives
The zero values of a quadratic Dirichlet character at conductor primes mean that its local factor is one, not that the whole Artin L-function vanishes there.
Only the rational primes can contribute to coefficients with index at most ten. Their character values are
For the odd unramified primes these entries follow by checking squares: modulo five, both and are the nonsquare , while is the square ; modulo seven they are respectively . At , is a square. At , the character is because the integral quadratic generator has polynomial , irreducible modulo two. The other entries at and are zero exactly where the corresponding fundamental discriminant is divisible by that prime. This verifies every local factor, including the ramified ones.
The Euler product makes a multiplicative arithmetic function. Expanding the first two factors gives
Therefore , , , and . Both factors for and have zero coefficient of , so . Multiplicativity gives and , while . The answer is
As an arithmetic check, the regular representation Artin L-function is the Dedekind zeta function of . The local factors say there is one prime of norm four above two and two primes of norm three above three. Their powers give respectively one ideal of norm four and three ideals of norm nine, matching the nonzero coefficients above.
A primitive Dirichlet character modulo is a Dirichlet character which is not induced from a character of a proper divisor of . To determine the inducing primitive Dirichlet character, use the Chinese remainder theorem to decompose
On each factor choose the least exponent through whose reduction the restricted character factors. Exponent zero means the trivial unit group modulo one. Put and define on the units modulo by these descended factors, extending by zero off the units. Every reduction of unit groups is surjective, so the descended character is unique. Its local exponents cannot be decreased, hence it is primitive. The original character is when , and zero otherwise.
Any other inducing modulus must have exponent at least at every prime, by restriction to the corresponding local factor. Therefore is the unique minimal modulus, the conductor of a Dirichlet character, and is the unique primitive Dirichlet character inducing . The argument also explains why removing extra prime factors can change values at integers that were nonunits for .
Use the unitary discrete Fourier transform, with :
For a unit , substitute in the sum. The multiplicativity of the Dirichlet character gives , hence
The complex conjugation is present in the original PDF and lost in the converted TeX. It matters for nonreal characters.
Now let and let be primitive. Since it does not descend to , there is a unit with . For , reduction is to the unit group modulo one. If , then , so multiplication of the summation variable by leaves its exponential factor unchanged. It follows that , and therefore . Also . This proves the formula at every nonunit as well as every unit, including .