The Sárközy–Sós conjecture for multivariate linear forms

Let d1d\geq 1 and let k1,,kdk_1,\dots,k_d be positive integers. For an infinite set of positive integers A\mathcal{A}, write rA(n;k1,,kd)r_{\mathcal{A}}(n;k_1,\dots,k_d) for the number of representations of nn by the corresponding multivariate linear form.

Sárközy–Sós conjecture. There exists some infinite set of positive integers A\mathcal{A} such that rA(n;k1,,kd)r_{\mathcal{A}}(n;k_1,\dots,k_d) is constant for nn large enough if and only if, up to permutation of the indices,

(k1,,kd)=(1,k,k2,,kd1)(k_1,\dots,k_d)=(1,k,k^2,\dots,k^{d-1})

for some k2k\geq 2.

The conjecture extends the known construction of Moser for coefficients ki=ki1k_i=k^{i-1} and concerns the exceptional cases not covered by the paper's nonexistence results, including representation functions such as rA(n;1,1,2)r_{\mathcal{A}}(n;1,1,2).

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Juanjo Rué and Christoph Spiegel, “On a problem of Sárközy and Sós for multivariate linear forms”, arXiv:1802.07597 (2018).

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