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Many results about characters and L functions take a simple form only for the so-called primitive characters, though they may be capable of extension, with complications, to imprimitive characters. We shall now explain the distinction between these two types of character, and afterward investigate in detail the real primitive characters.
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Davenport, H. (1980). Primitive Characters. In: Multiplicative Number Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 74. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5927-3_5
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