Sums of the floor function related to class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields
Number Theory
2025-10-07 v1
Abstract
A curious identity of Bunyakovsky (1882), made more widely known by P\'olya and Szeg{\H o} in their ``Problems and Theorems in Analysis", gives an evaluation of a sum of the floor function of square roots involving primes . We evaluate this sum also in the case , obtaining an identity in terms of the class number of the imaginary quadratic field . We also consider certain cases where the prime is replaced by a composite integer. Class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields are again involved in some cases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.04387,
title = {Sums of the floor function related to class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields},
author = {Marc Chamberland and Karl Dilcher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04387},
year = {2025}
}