Multiplicative
Mitchell Harris
harris at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de
Sun May 22 22:54:05 CEST 2005
On Sun, 22 May 2005, David Wilson wrote:
>A023153 through A023161 are all multiplicative.
>
>Basically, if gcd(x, y) = 1, we can use the Chinese remainder theorem to
>induce a bijection between pairs of cycles modulo x and y to cycles modulo
>xy. This means a(xy) = a(x)a(y), and a is multiplicative. This argument
>works for cycles of any injection f: Z(n) -> Z(n), including f(n) = n^k, as
>in these sequences.
>
>a(p^k) is difficult.
There's the formula for A023153 given by Pieter Moree, but I can't
figure out what ord_d(2) is or how to use it for the other sequences.
Mitch
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