On the sum of two squares and at most two powers of 2
Number Theory
2016-10-19 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate that there are infinitely many integers that cannot be expressed as the sum of two squares of integers and up to two non-negative integer powers of 2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.01672,
title = {On the sum of two squares and at most two powers of 2},
author = {Dave Platt and Tim Trudgian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01672},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
5 pages; to appear in Amer. Math. Monthly