A Menon-type Identity with Multiplicative and Additive Characters

Abstract

This paper studies Menon-type identities involving both multiplicative characters and additive characters. In the paper, we shall give the explicit formula of the following sum \[ \sum_{\substack{a \in \mathbb{Z}_n^{\ast} \\ b_1, \ldots, b_k \in \mathbb{Z}_n}} \gcd(a-1, b_1, \ldots, b_k, n) \chi(a) \lambda_1(b_1) \cdots \lambda_k(b_k), \] where for a positive integer $n$, $\mathbb{Z}_n^{\ast}$ is the group of units of the ring $\mathbb{Z}_n = \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, $\gcd$ represents the greatest common divisor, $\chi$ is a Dirichlet character modulo $n$, and for a nonnegative integer $k$, $\lambda_1, \ldots, \lambda_k$ are additive characters of $\mathbb{Z}_n$. Our formula further extends the previous results by Sury [13], Zhao-Cao [17] and Li-Hu-Kim [4].