TITLE: Understanding the proof of Möbius inversion formula
QUESTION [8 upvotes]: I am trying to understand one step in the proof of the Möbius inversion formula.
The theorem is

Let $f(n)$ and $g(n)$ be functions defined for every positive integer $n$ satisfying $$f(n) = \sum_{d|n}g(d)$$
  Then, g satisfies $$g(n)=\sum_{d|n}\mu(d) f(\frac{n}{d})$$

The proof is as follows:
We have $$\sum_{d|n}\mu(d)f(\frac{n}{d}) = \sum_{d|n}\mu(\frac{n}{d})f(d) = \sum_{d|n}\mu(\frac{n}{d}) \sum_{d'|d}g(d') = \sum_{d'|n}g(d')\sum_{m|(n/d')}\mu(m)$$ 
Where in the last term, the inner sum on the right hand side is $0$ unless $d'=n$. 
My question is: how do we get the last equation? I don't really understand how the author interchanges the summation signs. 
Thanks for any help!

REPLY [7 votes]: First, considering the sum
\begin{align*}
\sum_{d|n}\mu(\frac{n}{d})\sum_{m|d}g(m),
\end{align*}
let's take a look into the indices
$$
n=\frac{n}{d}d=\frac{n}{d}\frac{d}{m}m=khm,
$$
with
$$
\frac{n}{d}=k, \frac{d}{m}=h.
$$
Thus, we have
\begin{align*}
\sum_{d|n}\mu(\frac{n}{d})\sum_{m|d}g(m)
&=\sum_{dk=n}\mu(k)\sum_{hm=d}g(m)\\
&=\sum_{khm=n}\mu(k)g(m)\\
&=\sum_{mkh=n}g(m)\sum_{kh=\frac{n}{m}}\mu(k)\\
&=\sum_{m|n}g(m)\sum_{k|\frac{n}{m}}\mu(k)\\
&=\sum_{m|n}g(m)[\frac{m}{n}]=g(n).
\end{align*}
If you are reading Apostol, then in his book's convention, we can see that we're in fact doing the convolution
$$
f*\mu=(g*U)*\mu=g*(U*\mu)=g*I=g,
$$
with $U(n)=1$ and $I(n)=[\frac{1}{n}].$
The tricky part here is that there are really three arithmetic functions convoluting with each other, namely, $f$, $g$ and $U.$