Difference between revisions of "Carmichael function"

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There are two different functions called the Carmichael function. Both are similar to Euler's totient function $\phi$ .

First Definition

The Carmichael function $\lambda$ is defined at $n$ to be the smallest positive integer $\lambda(n)$ such that $a^{\lambda(n)} \equiv 1\pmod {n}$ for all positive integers $a$ relatively prime to $n$ . The order of $a\pmod {n}$ always divides $\lambda(n)$ .

This function is also known as the reduced totient function or the least universal exponent function.

Suppose $n=p_1^{\alpha_1}\cdot p_2^{\alpha_2}\cdots p_k^{\alpha_k}$ . We have

$\lambda(n) = \begin{cases} \phi(n) & \mathrm {for}\ n=p^{\alpha},\ \mathrm {with}\ p=2\ \mathrm {and}\ \alpha\le 2,\ \mathrm {or}\ p\ge 3\\ \frac{1}{2}\phi(n) & \mathrm {for}\ n=2^{\alpha}\ \mathrm {and}\ \alpha\ge 3\\ \mathrm{lcm} (\lambda(p_1^{\alpha_1}), \lambda(p_2^{\alpha_2}), \ldots, \lambda(p_k^{\alpha_k})) & \mathrm{for}\ \mathrm{all}\ n. \end{cases}$

Examples

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Evaluate $2009^{2009}\pmod{1000}$ . [1]

Second Definition

The second definition of the Carmichael function is the least common multiples of all the factors of $\phi(n)$ . It is written as $\lambda'(n)$ . However, in the case $8|n$ , we take $2^{\alpha-2}$ as a factor instead of $2^{\alpha-1}$ .

Examples

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-Evaluate <math>2009^{2009}</math> (mod <math>1000</math>).
+Evaluate <math>2009^{2009}\pmod{1000}</math>.
 [http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=1363764#1363764]

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Difference between revisions of "Carmichael function"

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Contents

First Definition

Examples

Second Definition

Examples

See also