Totative

Coprime number less than a given integer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In number theory, a totative of a given positive integer n is an integer k such that 0 < kn and k is coprime to n. Euler's totient function φ(n) counts the number of totatives of n. The totatives under multiplication modulo n form the multiplicative group of integers modulo n.

Distribution

The distribution of totatives has been a subject of study. Paul Erdős conjectured that, writing the totatives of n as

the mean square gap satisfies

for some constant C, and this was proven by Bob Vaughan and Hugh Montgomery.[1]

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