A Short Proof of Cauchy's Polygonal Number Theorem

DOI10.2307/2046263zbMATH Open0611.10036OpenAlexW4250230226WikidataQ56442119 ScholiaQ56442119MaRDI QIDQ3751668FDOQ3751668

Authors: Melvyn B. Nathanson 

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2046263

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zbMATH Keywords

sums of squaresrepresentation of integerspolygonal numbersCauchy- Fermat theoremsum of polygonal numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Additive bases, including sumsets (11B13) Additive number theory; partitions (11P99)

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• A short proof for the open quadrant problem
• Representations of integers as sums of four polygonal numbers and partial theta functions
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• Representing \(n\) as \(n=x+y+z\) with \(x^2+y^2+z^2\) a square
• On universal sums of polygonal numbers
• On regular polytope numbers
• The pentagonal theorem of sixty-three and generalizations of Cauchy's lemma
• The triangular theorem of eight and representation by quadratic polynomials
• On sums of four pentagonal numbers with coefficients
• Numerical semigroups generated by quadratic sequences

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