Erdős-Surányi sequences and trigonometric integrals

DOI10.5486/PMD.2016.7452zbMATH Open1399.11066arXiv1506.04555MaRDI QIDQ2979413FDOQ2979413

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Publication date: 25 April 2017

Published in: Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study representations of integers as sums of the form $pm{a}_{1}pm{a}_{2}pmdotsbpm{a}_n$, where $a_1,a_2,ldots$ is a prescribed sequence of integers. Such a sequence is called an ErdH{o}s-Sur'anyi sequence if every integer can be written in this form for some $ninmathbbN$ and choices of signs in infinitely many ways. We study the number of representations of a fixed integer, which can be written as a trigonometric integral, and obtain an asymptotic formula under a rather general scheme due to Roth and Szekeres. Our approach, which is based on Laplace's method for approximating integrals, can also be easily extended to find higher-order expansions. As a corollary, we settle a conjecture of Andrica and Ionac{s}cu on the number of solutions to the signum equation $pm{1}^{k}pm{2}^{k}pmdotsbpm{n}^k=0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04555

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zbMATH Keywords

partitionsLaplace methodtrigonometric integralsignum equationErdős-Surányi sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Analytic theory of partitions (11P82)

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