Restricted sums of four squares

DOI10.1142/S1793042119501045MaRDI QIDQ5236483zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 8 October 2019

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05868

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sums of squaresrepresentations of integerspowers of two

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General ternary and quaternary quadratic forms; forms of more than two variables (11E20) Sums of squares and representations by other particular quadratic forms (11E25) Representation problems (11D85)

Abstract: We refine Lagrange's four-square theorem in new ways by imposing some restrictions involving powers of two (including $1$). For example, we show that each $n=1,2,3,ldots$ can be written as $x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2$ $(x,y,z,winmathbbN=0,1,2,ldots)$ with $|x+y-z|in{4}^k:kinmathbbN$ (or $|2x-y|in{4}^k:kinmathbbN$, or $x+y-zinpm{8}^k:kinmathbbNcup0subseteq{t}^3:tinmathbbZ$), and that we can write any positive integer as $x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2$ $(x,y,z,winmathbbZ)$ with $x+y+2z$ (or $x+2y+2z$) a power of four. We also prove that any $ninmathbbN$ can be written as $x^2+y^2+z^2+2w^2$ $(x,y,z,winmathbbZ)$ with $x+y+z+w$ a square (or a cube). In addition, we pose some open conjectures for further research; for example, we conjecture that any integer $n>1$ can be written as $a^2+b^2+3^c+5^d$ with $a,b,c,dinmathbbN$.

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