scholarly journals On Waring’s problem: Three cubes and a sixth power

2001 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 13-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Brüdern ◽  
Trevor D. Wooley

We establish that almost all natural numbers not congruent to 5 modulo 9 are the sum of three cubes and a sixth power of natural numbers, and show, moreover, that the number of such representations is almost always of the expected order of magnitude. As a corollary, the number of representations of a large integer as the sum of six cubes and two sixth powers has the expected order of magnitude. Our results depend on a certain seventh moment of cubic Weyl sums restricted to minor arcs, the latest developments in the theory of exponential sums over smooth numbers, and recent technology for controlling the major arcs in the Hardy-Littlewood method, together with the use of a novel quasi-smooth set of integers.

2010 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 59-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Brüdern ◽  
Trevor D. Wooley

AbstractWe establish that almost all natural numbers n are the sum of four cubes of positive integers, one of which is no larger than n5/36. The proof makes use of an estimate for a certain eighth moment of cubic exponential sums, restricted to minor arcs only, of independent interest.


2010 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 59-91
Author(s):  
Jörg Brüdern ◽  
Trevor D. Wooley

AbstractWe establish that almost all natural numbersnare the sum of four cubes of positive integers, one of which is no larger thann5/36. The proof makes use of an estimate for a certain eighth moment of cubic exponential sums, restricted to minor arcs only, of independent interest.


2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor D. Wooley

AbstractAn asymptotic formula is established for the number of representations of a large integer as the sum of kth powers of natural numbers, in which each representation is counted with a homogeneous weight that de-emphasises the large solutions. Such an asymptotic formula necessarily fails when this weight is excessively light.


In this paper we continue our development of the methods of Vaughan & Wooley, these being based on the use of exponential sums over integers having only small prime divisors. On this occasion we concentrate on improvements in the estimation of the contribution of the major arcs arising in the efficient differencing process. By considering the underlying diophantine equation, we are able to replace certain smooth Weyl sums by classical Weyl sums, and thus we are able to utilize a number of pruning processes to facilitate our analysis. These methods lead to improvements in Waring’s problem for larger k . In this instance we prove that G (8) ⩽ 42, which is to say that all sufficiently large natural numbers are the sum of at most 42 eighth powers of integers. This improves on the earlier bound G (8) ⩽ 43.


An interesting extension of Waring’s famous problem is the following:— Can every sufficiently large n be expressed, as the sum of s almost equal k-th powers; or, more generally, can every sufficiently large n be expressed as the sum of s positive k-th powers almost proportional to s arbitrarily assigned positive numbers Xl5 x2, ... x, ? I have developed two methods to discuss this problem, one based on the Hardy-Littlewood method for the solution of WARING’s problem and the other on the new VINOGRADOFF method* for the solution of the same problem. In this paper I shall discuss the case k3 by the first of these methods. The case of five or more squares may be treated in the same way, and the results are similar; somewhat deeper and more troublesome analysis is required to deal with the case of four squares. The principle of the method employed here is that of weighting ” the various representations of n as the sum of s k-th powers in such a way as to make predominant the particular representation of which we are in search.


2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
JÖRG BRÜDERN ◽  
KOICHI KAWADA

AbstractWe prove that almost all natural numbers satisfying certain necessary congruence conditions can be written as the sum of two cubes of primes and two cubes of P2-numbers, where, as usual, we call a natural number a P2-number when it is a prime or the product of two primes. From this result we also deduce that every sufficiently large integer can be written as the sum of eight cubes of P2-numbers.


1991 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Brüdern

A classical conjecture in the additive theory of numbers is that all sufficiently large natural numbers may be written as the sum of four positive cubes of integers. This is known as the Four Cubes Problem, and since the pioneering work of Hardy and Littlewood one expects a much more precise quantitative form of the conjecture to hold. Let v(n) be the number of representations of n in the proposed manner. Then the expected formula takes the shapewhere (n) is the singular series associated with four cubes as familiar in the Hardy–Littlewood theory.


1969 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Thanigasalam

In the paper entitled ‘Asymptotic formula in a generalized Waring's problem’, I established an asymptotic formula for the number of representations of a large natural number N in the formwhere x1, x2, …, x7 and k are natural numbers with k ≥ 4 (see (2) Theorem 2).


We show how the methods of Vaughan & Wooley, which have proved fruitful in dealing with Waring’s problem, may also be used to investigate the fractional parts of an additive form. Results are obtained which are near to best possible for forms with algebraic coefficients. New results are also obtained in the general case. Extensions are given to make several additive forms simultaneously small. The key ingredients in this work are: mean value theorems for exponential sums, the use of a small common factor for the integer variables, and the large sieve inequality.


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