A Constructive Proof of Jacobi's Identity for the Sum of Two Squares
Combinatorics
2019-07-16 v1
Abstract
We present a constructive proof of Jacobi's identity for the sum of two squares. We present a combinatorial proof of the Jacobi Triple Product and combine with a proof of Hirschhorn to define an algorithm. The input is a factorization with plus two bits of data, and whose output is either another factorization and with two more bits of data, or a pair of integers whose squares sum to . We phrase this algorithm in terms of integer partitions and matchings on an infinite graph.
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@article{arxiv.1907.06350,
title = {A Constructive Proof of Jacobi's Identity for the Sum of Two Squares},
author = {Mario DeFranco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06350},
year = {2019}
}