Dedekind psi-function
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Definition
The Dedekind psi-function is an arithmetic function that sends any natural number to the number:
where the product is over all primes dividing
.
Relation with other arithmetic functions
- Euler phi-function has a similar expression to the Dedekind psi-function, except that the expression is
rather than
.