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On the Gauss mean-value formula for class number

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Fernando Chamizo  and
Henryk Iwaniec
Fernando Chamizo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain, [email protected]
Henryk Iwaniec
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, U.S.A., [email protected]
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In his masterwork Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Gauss stated an approximate formula for the average of the class number for negative discriminants. In this paper we improve the known estimates for the error term in Gauss approximate formula. Namely, our result can be written as for every ∊ > 0, where H(−n) is, in modern notation, h(−4n). We also consider the average of h(−n) itself obtaining the same type of result.

Proving this formula we transform firstly the problem in a lattice point problem (as probably Gauss did) and we use a functional equation due to Shintani and Dirichlet class number formula to express the error term as a sum of character and exponential sums that can be estimated with techniques introduced in a previous work on the sphere problem.

Type
Research Article
Information
Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 151 , September 1998 , pp. 199 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1998

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