Results of Hurwitz type for five or more squares (Q1850939)
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Results of Hurwitz type for five or more squares (English)
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15 December 2002
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In this article, many interesting identities are recorded for the first time. These identities are related to the sums of squares function, and they are motivated by Ramanujan's identity \[ \sum_{n\geq 0} p(5n+4)q^n = 5\prod_{n\geq 1}\frac{(1-q^{5n})^5}{(1-q^n)^6}. \] One of the simplest examples is \[ \sum_{n\geq 0} r_7(24n+23)q^n=49728\prod_{n\geq 1}\frac{(1-q^{2n})^{10}(1-q^{3n})^3}{(1-q^n)^6}, \] where \(r_k(n)\) denotes the number of representations of \(n\) as a sum of \(k\) squares. Most of the identities in this paper are proved in an elementary way (but by no means obvious) using mathematical induction.
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identities
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sums of squares
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Ramanujan's identity
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