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Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters

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For reduced residue classes a,n modulo q,
φ(q)1​∑χmodq​χ(a)​χ(n)={1,0,​n≡a(modq),n≡a(modq).​
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This is the orthogonality relation for the characters of the finite abelian group (Z/qZ)×.

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