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Let $G(k)$ denote the least number $s$ having the property that every sufficiently large natural number is the sum of at most $s$ positive integral $k$-th powers. Then for all $k\in \mathbb N$, one has \[ G(k)\le \lceil k(\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Joerg Bruedern , Trevor D. Wooley

We analyze the problem of determining Waring decompositions of the powers of any quadratic form over the field of complex numbers. Our main goal is to provide information about their rank and also to obtain decompositions whose size is as…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Cosimo Flavi

Let $F$ be a homogeneous form of degree $d$ in $n$ variables. A Waring decomposition of $F$ is a way to express $F$ as a sum of $d^{th}$ powers of linear forms. In this paper we consider the decompositions of a form as a sum of expressions,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Maria Virginia Catalisano , Luca Chiantini , Anthony V. Geramita , Alessandro Oneto

We study a variant of Waring's problem for $\mathbb{Z}_n$, the ring of integers modulo $n$: For a fixed integer $k \geq 2$, what is the minimum number $m$ of $k$th powers necessary such that $x \equiv x_1^k + \dots + x_m^k \pmod{n}$ has a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-31 David Covert , Alex Iosevich , Jonathan Pakianathan

In this paper, we study a density version of Waring's problem. We prove that a positive density subset of $k$th-powers forms an asymptotic additive basis of order $O(k^2)$ provided that the relative lower density of the set is greater than…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Juho Salmensuu

We improve the large sieve inequality with $k$th-power moduli, for all $k\ge 4$. Our method relates these inequalities to a restricted variant of Waring's problem. Firstly, we input a classical divisor bound on the number of representations…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Stephan Baier , Sean B. Lynch

We investigate the number of representations of a large positive integer as the sum of two squares, two positive integral cubes, and two sixth powers, showing that the anticipated asymptotic formula fails for at most O((log X)^3) positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Trevor D. Wooley

Waring problem for homogeneus forms asks for additive decomposition of a form $f$ into powers of linear forms. A classical problem is to determine when such a decomposition is unique. In this paper I answer this question when the degree of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano Mella

This paper investigates the Waring problem of harmonic polynomials. By characterizing the annihilating ideal of a homogeneous harmonic polynomial, i.e., a real binary form that is in the kernel of the Laplacian, we show that its Waring rank…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Hua-Lin Huang , Yilun Tang , Yu Ye , Rongmin Zhu

Let $k \geq 2$ and $b \geq 3$ be integers, and suppose that $d_1, d_2 \in \{0,1,\dots, b - 1\}$ are distinct and coprime. Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the set of non-negative integers, all of whose digits in base $b$ are either $d_1$ or $d_2$. Then…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Ben Green

The Matrix Waring problem is if we can write every matrix as a sum of $k$-th powers. Here, we look at the same problem for triangular matrix algebra $T_n(\mathbb{F}_q)$ consisting of upper triangular matrices over a finite field. We prove…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Rahul Kaushik , Anupam Singh

Kamke \cite{Kamke1921} solved an analog of Waring's problem with $n$th powers replaced by integer-valued polynomials. Larsen and Nguyen \cite{LN2019} explored the view of algebraic groups as a natural setting for Waring's problem. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Ya-Qing Hu

Waring's Problem asks whether, for each positive integer $k$, there exists an integer $s$ such that every positive integer is a sum of at most $k$th powers. While Hilbert proved the existence of such $s$, Waring's Problem has lead to areas…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Owen Root

We investigate the Waring-Goldbach problem of representing a positive integer $n$ as the sum of $s$ $k$th powers of almost equal prime numbers. Define $s_k=2k(k-1)$ when $k\ge 3$, and put $s_2=6$. In addition, put $\theta_2=\frac{19}{24}$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Bin Wei , Trevor D. Wooley

The classical Waring problem deals with expressing every natural number as a sum of g(k) k-th powers. Similar problems were recently studied in group theory, where we aim to present group elements as short products of values of a given…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Chun Yin Hui , Michael Larsen , Aner Shalev

Let $f\in \mathbb{Q}(x)$ be a non-constant rational function. We consider "Waring's Problem for $f(x)$," i.e., whether every element of $\bbq$ can be written as a bounded sum of elements of $\{f(a)\mid a\in \mathbb{Q}\}$. For rational…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Bo-Hae Im , Michael Larsen

In this paper, we investigate exceptional sets in the Waring-Goldbach problem for unlike powers. For example, estimates are obtained for sufficiently large integers below a parameter subject to the necessary local conditions that do not…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Zhenzhen Feng , Jing Ma

In this paper, we first consider the pseudoprimeness of meromorphic solutions $u$ to a family of partial differential equations (PDEs) $H(u_{z_1},u_{z_2},\ldots,u_{z_n})=P(u)$ of Waring's-problem form, where $H(z_1,z_2,\ldots,z_n)$ is a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Qi Han

We survey the potential for progress in additive number theory arising from recent advances concerning major arc bounds associated with mean value estimates for smooth Weyl sums. We focus attention on the problem of representing large…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Joerg Bruedern , Trevor D. Wooley

In this paper, we exhibit an asymptotic formula for the number of representations of a large integer as a sum of a fixed power of Piatetski-Shapiro primes, thereby establishing a variant of Waring-Goldbach problem with primes from a sparse…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Yildirim Akbal , Ahmet Muhtar Guloglu