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A023135 Number of cycles of function f(x) = 3x mod n. +0
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1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 5, 1, 4, 3, 3, 5, 4, 2, 7, 2, 2, 2, 7, 2, 6, 3, 5, 3, 10, 1, 7, 2, 4, 2, 9, 3, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, 5, 13, 6, 4, 2, 9, 2, 6, 3, 7, 3, 6, 2, 15, 2, 2, 6, 13, 2, 4, 3, 7, 7, 4, 2, 11, 10, 6, 4, 7, 3, 10, 3, 5, 7, 6, 3, 7, 6, 10, 2, 23, 1, 12, 3, 7, 7, 4, 2, 15, 2, 4, 18, 9, 2, 6, 5, 9, 3, 6, 3, 11 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENT

Number of factors in the factorization of the polynomial x^n-1 over the integers mod 3. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Apr 16 2003

REFERENCES

R. Lidl and H. Niederreiter, Finite Fields, Addison-Wesley, 1983, p. 65.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..10000

FORMULA

a(n) = Sum_{d|m} phi(d)/ord(3, d), where m is n with all factors of 3 removed. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Apr 19 2003

EXAMPLE

a(15) = 2 because (1) the function 3x mod 15 has the two cycles (0),(3,9,12,6) and (2) the factorization of x^15-1 over integers mod 3 is (2+x)^3 (1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4)^3, which has two unique factors. Note that the length of the cycles is the same as the degree of the factors.

MATHEMATICA

Table[Length[FactorList[x^n - 1, Modulus -> 3]] - 1, {n, 100}]

CountFactors[p_, n_] := Module[{sum=0, m=n, d, f, i}, While[Mod[m, p]==0, m/=p]; d=Divisors[m]; Do[f=d[[i]]; sum+=EulerPhi[f]/MultiplicativeOrder[p, f], {i, Length[d]}]; sum]; Table[CountFactors[3, n], {n, 100}]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000005, A000374, A023136-A023142.

Adjacent sequences: A023132 A023133 A023134 this_sequence A023136 A023137 A023138

Sequence in context: A035221 A035191 A133924 this_sequence A066272 A058773 A122805

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

David W. Wilson (davidwwilson(AT)comcast.net)

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