Farhi's almost-universality conjecture for equal floor-square sums

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Let mm be an integer with m≥3m\geq 3, let n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}, and let x,y,z∈Zx,y,z\in\mathbb{Z}. The floor function is defined by

⌊θ⌋:=max⁡{k≤θ:k∈Z}.\lfloor\theta\rfloor:=\max\{k\leq\theta:k\in\mathbb{Z}\}.

Farhi's conjecture. For each integer m≥3m\geq 3, every natural number nn can be represented as

n=⌊x2m⌋+⌊y2m⌋+⌊z2m⌋.n=\left\lfloor\frac{x^2}{m}\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor\frac{y^2}{m}\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor\frac{z^2}{m}\right\rfloor.

The restriction m≥3m\geq 3 is necessary because ⌊x2/2⌋\lfloor x^2/2\rfloor is even for every x∈Zx\in\mathbb{Z}. The conjecture is known for several small values of mm, and this paper proves it for every sufficiently large nn for each fixed m≥3m\geq 3; full universality for every nn remains open in general.

References

Primary source

Hai-Liang Wu, He-Xia Ni and Hao Pan, “On the almost universality of x^2/a+y^2/b+z^2/c”, arXiv:1806.10136 (2018).

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