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This paper deals with surfaces with many lines. It is well-known that a cubic contains 27 of them and that the maximal number for a quartic is 64. In higher degree the question remains open. Here we study classical and new constructions of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Samuel Boissiere , Alessandra Sarti

In this note we show that the apolar cubic forms associated to codimension two linear sections of canonical curves of genus at least eleven are special with respect to their presentation as sums of cubes.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atanas Iliev , Kristian Ranestad

We show that every sufficiently large integer is a sum of a prime and two almost prime squares, and also a sum of a smooth number and two almost prime squares. The number of such representations is of the expected order of magnitude. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Valentin Blomer , Lasse Grimmelt , Junxian Li , Simon L. Rydin Myerson

We formulate an equivariant conservation of number, which proves that a generalized Euler number of a complex equivariant vector bundle can be computed as a sum of local indices of an arbitrary section. This involves an expansion of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Thomas Brazelton

We establish a lower bound for the frequency with which an irreducible monic cubic polynomial with negative discriminant can be expressed as a sum of two squares ($\square_{2}$). This provides a quantitative answer to a question posed by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Siddharth Iyer

We consider the Linnik--Goldbach problem of writing all large even integers as the sum of two primes and a fixed number of powers of 2. We show that, under the generalised Riemann hypothesis, one can use 6 powers of two. In addition, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Daniel R. Johnston , Tim Trudgian

We establish that almost every positive integer $n$ is the sum of four cubes, two of which are at most $n^{\theta}$, as long as $\theta\geq192/869$. An asymptotic formula for the number of such representations is established when…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Siu-lun Alan Lee

In this paper, it is proved that, for $\gamma\in(\frac{317}{320},1)$, every sufficiently large odd integer can be written as the sum of nine cubes of primes, each of which is of the form $[n^{1/\gamma}]$. This result constitutes an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Linji Long , Jinjiang Li , Min Zhang , Yankun Sui

It is conjectured that every integer N>454 is the sum of seven nonnegative cubes. We prove the conjecture when N is congruent to 2 mod 4. This result, together with a recent proof for 4|N, shows that the conjecture is true for all even N.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-09-22 Noam D. Elkies

Every natural number greater than two may be written as the sum of a prime and a square-free number. We establish several generalisations of this, by placing divisibility conditions on the square-free number.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Forrest J. Francis , Ethan S. Lee

We show how sums of some $5th$ powers can be written as sums of some cubics

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Farzali Izadi , Mehdi Baghalaghdam

Euler noted the relation $6^3=3^3+4^3+5^3$ and asked for other instances of cubes that are sums of consecutive cubes. Similar problems have been studied by Cunningham, Catalan, Gennochi, Lucas, Pagliani, Cassels, Uchiyama, Stroeker and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Michael Bennett , Vandita Patel , Samir Siksek

Let $a,b,c,d,e,f\in\mathbb N$ with $a\ge c\ge e>0$, $b\le a$ and $b\equiv a\pmod2$, $d\le c$ and $d\equiv c\pmod2$, $f\le e$ and $f\equiv e\pmod2$. If any nonnegative integer can be written as $x(ax+b)/2+y(cy+d)/2+z(ez+f)/2$ with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Hai-Liang Wu , Zhi-Wei Sun

This paper proposes an elementary solution to a special case of finding all perfect squares that can be written as sum of consecutive integer cubes. It is shown that there are no non-trivial solutions if the perfect square is a prime power,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Atilla Akkuş

A power is a word of the form $\underbrace{uu...u}_{k \; \text{times}}$, where $u$ is a word and $k$ is a positive integer and a square is a word of the form $uu$. Fraenkel and Simpson conjectured in 1998 that the number of distinct squares…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Shuo Li

We prove a conjecture posted in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, namely that there are exactly five positive integers that can be written in more than one way as the sum of a nonnegative power of 2 and a nonnegative power of 3.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Douglas Edward Iannucci

We consider the representation of primes as a sum of a prime and twice a triangular number. We prove that a subset of the primes having density 1 is expressible in this form. We conjecture that every odd prime number is expressible as a sum…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Ivan Blanco-Chacon , Gary McGuire , Oisin Robinson

It is shown that every sufficiently large even integer is a sum of two primes and exactly 13 powers of 2. Under the Generalized Rieman Hypothesis one can replace 13 by 7. Unlike previous work on this problem, the proof avoids numerical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. R. Heath-Brown , J. -C. Puchta

It is conjectured that every integer N>454 is the sum of seven nonnegative cubes. We prove the conjecture when N is a multiple of 4.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Kent D. Boklan , Noam D. Elkies

We show that for a large class of cubic polynomials $f$, every sufficiently large number can be written as a sum of seven positive values of $f$. As a special case, we show that every number greater than $e^{10^7}$ is a sum of seven…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Zarathustra Brady