More on the Waring Problem

Author(s):  
Enrico Carlini ◽  
Huy Tài Hà ◽  
Brian Harbourne ◽  
Adam Van Tuyl
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Tim Browning ◽  
Shuntaro Yamagishi

AbstractWe study the density of rational points on a higher-dimensional orbifold $$(\mathbb {P}^{n-1},\Delta )$$ ( P n - 1 , Δ ) when $$\Delta $$ Δ is a $$\mathbb {Q}$$ Q -divisor involving hyperplanes. This allows us to address a question of Tanimoto about whether the set of rational points on such an orbifold constitutes a thin set. Our approach relies on the Hardy–Littlewood circle method to first study an asymptotic version of Waring’s problem for mixed powers. In doing so we make crucial use of the recent resolution of the main conjecture in Vinogradov’s mean value theorem, due to Bourgain–Demeter–Guth and Wooley.


2009 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Ottaviani

AbstractWe compute the equation of the 7-secant variety to the Veronese variety (P4,O(3)), its degree is 15. This is the last missing invariant in the Alexander-Hirschowitz classification. It gives the condition to express a homogeneous cubic polynomial in 5 variables as the sum of 7 cubes (Waring problem). The interesting side in the construction is that it comes from the determinant of a matrix of order 45 with linear entries, which is a cube. The same technique allows to express the classical Aronhold invariant of plane cubics as a pfaffian.


1939 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Erdös

In a previous paper I proved that the density of the positive integers of the form where the letters p, q, and later P, Q, r, denote primes, is positive. As indicated in the Introduction of I, I now give proofs of the following results:The density of each of the sets of integersis positive.


1953 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 439-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Ayoub

The Waring problem deals with the decomposition of integers into sums of kth powers. Consider


Author(s):  
Paul Erdös

The famous theorem of Schnirelmann states that a constant c exists such that every integer greater than one may be expressed as the sum of at most c primes. Recently, Heilbronn, Landau and Scherk proved that this holds with c = 71. Probably the true value of c is 3. Another well-known theorem (Hilbert's solution of Waring's problem) is that every integer is the sum of a bounded number of positive kth powers. If we omit the restriction that all the kth powers are positive, the problem is referred to as the easier Waring problem and the proof of the result is then much simpler.


Author(s):  
Enrico Carlini ◽  
Huy Tài Hà ◽  
Brian Harbourne ◽  
Adam Van Tuyl
Keyword(s):  

2012 ◽  
Vol 370 ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Carlini ◽  
Maria Virginia Catalisano ◽  
Anthony V. Geramita
Keyword(s):  

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document