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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 n=dNn=dN with d1mod4d \equiv1\mod 4 plus two bits of data, and whose output is either another factorization n=dNn=d'N' and d3mod4d' \equiv3\mod 4 with two more bits of data, or a pair of integers whose squares sum to nn. 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}
}