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Introduction to L-series and Dirichlet characters?
I'm looking for an introductory text on Dirichlet characters and the L-series of a field K, specifically for quartic extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$. I have Davenport's Multiplicative Number Theory, ...
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The sign of an interesting sum involving a Dirichlet character
Let $\chi_{q}$ be a primitive Dirichlet character with modulus $q$ (see definition at wikipedia ).
For example for $q=5$ we have
\begin{equation}
\begin{aligned}
\chi_{5,1}&=(1, 1, 1, 1, 0),\\
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