Simultaneous indivisibility of class numbers of pairs of real quadratic fields

The Ramanujan Journal - For a square-free integer t, Byeon (Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 132:3137–3140, 2004) proved the existence of infinitely many pairs of quadratic fields $$\mathbb...     

On sums of polynomial-type exceptional units in $$\varvec{\mathbb {Z}}/\varvec{n\mathbb {Z}}$$Z/nZ

A unit u in a commutative ring with unity R is called exceptional if $$u-1$$ is also a unit. We introduce the notion of a polynomial version of this (abbreviated as $$f\hbox {-exunits}$$) for any $$f(X) \in \mathbb {Z}[X]$$. We find the number of representations of a non-zero element of $$\mathbb {Z}/n\mathbb {Z}$$ as a sum of two f-exunits for an infinite family of polynomials f of each degree $$\ge 1$$. We also derive the exact formulae for certain infinite families of linear and quadratic polynomials. This generalizes a result proved by Sander (J Number Theory 159:1–6, 2016).