Möbius inversion formula for class numbers in terms of the floor-function sum

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Let nn be an odd squarefree positive integer. Define δ(n)\delta(n) by

δ(n)={1,n≡3(mod4),0,otherwise.\delta(n)=\begin{cases}1,&n\equiv3\pmod{4},\\0,&\text{otherwise}. \end{cases}

The Möbius-inversion class-number conjecture. One has

h∗(−n)δ(n)=∑d∣nμ(nd)(1−d2δ(d)−2f(d)).h^*(-n)\delta(n)=\sum_{d\mid n}\mu\left(\frac nd\right)\left(\frac{1-d}{2}\delta(d)-2f(d)\right).

The paper derives this as a conjectural consequence of the preceding odd-squarefree identity and notes that it would express all h∗(−n)h^*(-n) for odd squarefree n>0n>0 in terms of the sum defining ff; no general proof is supplied.

References

Primary source

Marc Chamberland and Karl Dilcher, “Sums of the floor function related to class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields”, arXiv:2510.04387 (2025).

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