The root must be a primitive th root of unity, for example . The printed statement merely says th root; that is insufficient. With and , the states with and coincide. More generally, a root of order repeats the labels modulo . For the construction is trivial.
For a primitive root of unity, the generalized Bell basis obeys
The last equality follows from the finite geometric series: a nonzero exponent difference modulo has sum zero, while zero difference has sum . There are orthonormal vectors in an -dimensional Hilbert space, so they form a complete basis.
For qudit teleportation, Alice's input is . Alice and Bob share . Define the qudit shift and phase operators by and . Alice measures in the generalized Bell basis. On outcome , Bob's unnormalized state is
All outcomes have probability . Alice communicates and Bob applies
which restores exactly. The protocol consumes one maximally entangled pair of -level systems, a local -outcome measurement, and a classical message with possibilities. For a fixed-length binary encoding, bits suffice. No measurement depends on the unknown amplitudes.