Prime injections and quasipolarities
Abstract: Let $p$ be a prime number. Consider the injection [ \iota:\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}\to\mathbb{Z}/pn\mathbb{Z}:x\mapsto px, ] and the elements $e{u}.v:=(u,v)\in \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}{\times}$ and $e{w}.r:=(w,r)\in \mathbb{Z}{p n}\rtimes \mathbb{Z}{p n}{\times}$. Suppose $e{u}.v\in \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}{\times}$ is seen as an automorphism of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ by $e{u}.v(x)=vx+u$; then $e{u}.v$ is a quasipolarity if it is an involution without fixed points. In this brief note give an explicit formula for the number of quasipolarites of $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ in terms of the prime decomposition of $n$, and we prove sufficient conditions such that $(e{w}.r)\circ \iota =\iota\circ (e{u}.v)$, where $e{w}.r$ and $e{u}.v$ are quasipolarities.
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