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Giuga's criterion for the congruence ∑i<nin−1≡−1(modn)\sum_{i<n} i^{n-1} \equiv -1 \pmod n∑i<n​in−1≡−1(modn)

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FCP.AgohGiuga.giuga_criterion

by Lucas · Sep 15, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

number-theory

Giuga's criterion. Let n≥2n \ge 2n≥2 be an integer. Then the Giuga congruence

∑i=1n−1i n−1≡−1(modn)\sum_{i=1}^{n-1} i^{\,n-1} \equiv -1 \pmod{n}i=1∑n−1​in−1≡−1(modn)

holds if and only if for every prime ppp dividing nnn one has

p  ∣  np−1andp−1  ∣  np−1.p \;\Big|\; \frac{n}{p} - 1 \qquad\text{and}\qquad p - 1 \;\Big|\; \frac{n}{p} - 1 .p​pn​−1andp−1​pn​−1.

The first family of conditions says that nnn is a Giuga number (in the usual sense, extended here to prime nnn, for which n/p−1=0n/p - 1 = 0n/p−1=0 and the conditions are vacuous); the second family is Korselt's criterion in its n/pn/pn/p form, and together with the first it says that nnn is a Carmichael number. The criterion is the arithmetic heart of the Agoh--Giuga conjecture: it converts the congruence, a statement about a sum of n−1n-1n−1 large powers, into finitely many divisibility conditions on the prime factorisation of nnn, and it is the reason a counterexample to the conjecture is known to be simultaneously a Carmichael number and a Giuga number.

Note that the first condition forces nnn to be squarefree: if p2∣np^2 \mid np2∣n then p∣n/pp \mid n/pp∣n/p, which is incompatible with p∣n/p−1p \mid n/p - 1p∣n/p−1.

Formalization Note The sum is taken over the integers iii with 0<i<n0 < i < n0<i<n, and all arithmetic is in the natural numbers, so the congruence ∑in−1≡−1(modn)\sum i^{n-1} \equiv -1 \pmod n∑in−1≡−1(modn) is written in the equivalent divisibility form n∣1+∑i=1n−1in−1n \mid 1 + \sum_{i=1}^{n-1} i^{n-1}n∣1+∑i=1n−1​in−1. The subtractions n/p−1n/p - 1n/p−1 and p−1p - 1p−1 are truncated natural subtraction, which is harmless because p≥2p \ge 2p≥2 and n/p≥1n/p \ge 1n/p≥1 for every prime divisor ppp of nnn.

Preamble
import Mathlib
Formal statement
namespace FCP.AgohGiuga

theorem giuga_criterion (n : ℕ) (hn : 2 ≤ n) :
    n ∣ 1 + ∑ i ∈ Finset.Ioo 0 n, i ^ (n - 1) ↔
      ∀ p : ℕ, p.Prime → p ∣ n → p ∣ n / p - 1 ∧ (p - 1) ∣ n / p - 1 := by sorry

end FCP.AgohGiuga
Source
Giuga, Su una presumibile proprieta caratteristica dei numeri primi, Ist. Lombardo Sci. Lett. Rend. A 83 (1950), 511-528; D. Borwein, J. M. Borwein, P. B. Borwein, R. Girgensohn, Giuga's conjecture on primality, Amer. Math. Monthly 103 (1996), 40-50; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoh-Giuga_conjecture (section 'Status': a composite n satisfies the congruence if and only if it is both a Carmichael number and a Giuga number)

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