Universal sums of generalized heptagonal numbers

2022/03/28 by Kamaraj, Ramanujam, Kane, Ben, Tomiyasu, Ryoko
#11E25 #11E45 #11F11 #11F27 #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2203.14678

Abstract

In this paper, we consider representations of integers as sums of generalized heptagonal numbers with a prescribed number of repeats of each heptagonal number appearing in the sum. In particular, we investigate the classification of such sums which are universal, i.e., those that represent every positive integer. We prove an explicit finite bound such that a given sum is universal if and only if it represents positive integer up to the given bound.

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