2005/07/07 by Bodo Lass, Lass, Bodo
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0507144
6 pages
arxiv created 2005/07/07 · openalex publication_date 2005/07/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Dumont has conjectured a marvellous identity, which generalizes, in particular, the classical results of Lagrange, Gauss, Jacobi and Kronecker on the sums of two, three and four squares. We give a combinatorial proof of Dumont's conjecture.