1. On the addition of squares of units modulo n.
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Mollahajiaghaei, Mohsen
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BRAUER groups , *MATHEMATICAL proofs , *GENERALIZATION , *RESIDUE theorem , *RING theory - Abstract
Let Z n be the ring of residue classes modulo n , and let Z n ⁎ be the group of its units. 90 years ago, Brauer obtained a formula for the number of representations of c ∈ Z n as the sum of k units. Recently, Yang and Tang (2015) [6] gave a formula for the number of solutions of the equation x 1 2 + x 2 2 = c with x 1 , x 2 ∈ Z n ⁎ . In this paper, we generalize this result. We find an explicit formula for the number of solutions of the equation x 1 2 + ⋯ + x k 2 = c with x 1 , … , x k ∈ Z n ⁎ . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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