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An Extension of the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott Problem to Nonnegative, Noninteger Powers

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Abstract

We present an extension of the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott problem by demonstrating that signed sums of noninteger powers of consecutive integers can be made arbitrarily close to zero.

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@article{arxiv.2503.19919,
  title  = {An Extension of the Prouhet-Tarry-Escott Problem to Nonnegative, Noninteger Powers},
  author = {David Treeby and Edward Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19919},
  year   = {2025}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure

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