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Tight universal sums of $m$-gonal numbers

Number Theory 2022-02-21 v1

Abstract

For a positive integer nn, the set of all integers greater than or equal to nn is denoted by T(n)\mathcal T(n). A sum of generalized mm-gonal numbers gg is called tight T(n)\mathcal T(n)-universal if the set of all nonzero integers represented by gg is equal to T(n)\mathcal T(n). In this article, we prove the existence of a minimal tight T(n)\mathcal T(n)-universality criterion set for a sum of generalized mm-gonal numbers for any pair (m,n)(m,n). To achieve this, we introduce an algorithm giving all candidates for tight T(n)\mathcal T(n)-universal sums of generalized mm-gonal numbers for any given pair (m,n)(m,n). Furthermore, we provide some experimental results on the classification of tight T(n)\mathcal T(n)-universal sums of generalized mm-gonal numbers.

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@article{arxiv.2202.09296,
  title  = {Tight universal sums of $m$-gonal numbers},
  author = {Jangwon Ju and Mingyu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09296},
  year   = {2022}
}