Self-Correlations of Hurwitz Class Numbers

Abstract

The asymptotic study of class numbers of binary quadratic forms is a foundational problem in arithmetic statistics. Here, we investigate finer statistics of class numbers by studying their self-correlations under additive shifts. Specifically, we produce uniform asymptotics for the shifted convolution sum ${\sum }_{n<X}H(n)H(n+\ell )$ for fixed $\ell \in \mathbb{Z}$, in which $H(n)$ denotes the Hurwitz class number.

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