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On finiteness theorems for sums of generalized polygonal numbers

Number Theory 2023-05-25 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we consider mixed sums of generalized polygonal numbers. Specifically, we obtain a finiteness condition for universality of such sums; this means that it suffices to check representability of a finite subset of the positive integers in order to conclude that the sum of generalized polygonal numbers represents every positive integer. The sub-class of sums of generalized polygonal numbers which we consider is those sums of mjm_j-gonal numbers for which lcm(m12,,mr2)M\operatorname{lcm}(m_1-2,\dots,m_{r}-2)\leq \mathfrak{M} and we obtain a bound on the asymptotic growth of a constant ΓM\Gamma_{\mathfrak{M}} such that it suffices to check the representability condition for nΓMn\leq \Gamma_{\mathfrak{M}}.

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@article{arxiv.2305.14670,
  title  = {On finiteness theorems for sums of generalized polygonal numbers},
  author = {Ben Kane and Zichen Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14670},
  year   = {2023}
}