Four-square representation conjecture for the middle-thirds Cantor set

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Let CC denote the middle-thirds Cantor set. For a real number u[0,1]u\in[0,1], consider representations of uu as a sum of four squares of elements of CC. Four-square representation conjecture. Every u[0,1]u\in[0,1] can be written as

u=x12+x22+x32+x42,u=x_1^2+x_2^2+x_3^2+x_4^2,

where xiCx_i\in C for 1i41\leq i\leq 4. The conjecture is supported by strong numerical evidence, but no proof or disproof is given here.

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Primary source

Jayadev S. Athreya, Bruce Reznick and Jeremy T. Tyson, “Cantor set arithmetic”, arXiv:1711.08791 (2017).

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