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For a character of modulus $p^k$, a primitive Dirichlet character attains the bound by finite Plancherel theorem. An imprimitive character with $k\ge 2$ has periodic values modulo $p^{k-1}$, so its frequency-one sum vanishes. The principal Dirichlet character modulo $p$ has unnormalized sum $-1$. The sign convention of the exponential does not affect its magnitude.

For a primitive Dirichlet character $\chi$ modulo $D$, its Gauss sum of a Dirichlet character gives $f_{\chi }=\tau (\overline{\chi }{)}^{-1}{\sum }_u\overline{\chi }(u)f|U_u$, with $U_u=\left(\begin{array}{cc}1& u/D\\ 0& 1\end{array}\right)$. If $\gamma =\left(\begin{array}{cc}a& b\\ c& d\end{array}\right)\in {\Gamma }_0(N{D}^2)$, take $v\equiv d^{2}u(\mathrm{mod}D)$. Then $U_u\gamma U_v^{-1}\in {\Gamma }_0(N)$ and its lower-right entry is congruent to $d$ modulo $N$. Reindexing the sum yields the character $\psi (d)\chi (d{)}^2$. Rational translations preserve vanishing at modular cusps, proving the stated cuspidality as well as the transformation law.

The principal Dirichlet character modulo $N$ is one on integers coprime to $N$ and zero on all other integers. Its Dirichlet L-function is $L({\chi }_0,s)=\zeta (s){\prod }_{p\mid N}(1-p^{-s})$, so it has a simple pole at one. For $N>1$ it is induced from the character of modulus one and is not a primitive Dirichlet character.

A real Dirichlet character takes values in $\{0,1,-1\}$. Its restriction to the unit group has order at most two; if it is nonprincipal, the order is exactly two. A real nonprincipal primitive Dirichlet character is the character to which a possible Siegel zero belongs.

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