The conjecture that β(N,l) depends only on l

Let N2N\geq 2 and 1<lN1<l\mid N. The homomorphism σN,l\sigma_{N,l} has image im(σN,l)=β(N,l)Z\operatorname{im}(\sigma_{N,l})=\beta(N,l)\mathbb{Z} for a unique positive integer β(N,l)\beta(N,l). Dependence conjecture.

β(N,l)=β(l,l).\beta(N,l)=\beta(l,l).

This would reduce the study of β(N,l)\beta(N,l) to the diagonal values β(l,l)\beta(l,l); the claim was verified for l,N<1000l,N<1000 by a SageMath program, but no proof or disproof is supplied here.

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Primary source

Xiao-Jie Zhu, “Explicit formulae for linear characters of Γ_0(N)”, arXiv:2402.14796 (2025).

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