We conjecture an explicit formula for the higher dimensional Dirichlet
character; the formula is based on the K-theory of the so-called noncommutative
tori. It is proved, that our conjecture is true for the two-dimensional and
one-dimensional (degenerate) noncommutative tori; in the second case, one gets
a noncommutative analog of the Artin reciprocity law.Comment: final version; to appear Proc. Amer. Math. So