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

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Let mm be an integer with m3m\geq 3, let nNn\in\mathbb{N}, and let x,y,zZx,y,z\in\mathbb{Z}. The floor function is defined by

θ:=max{kθ:kZ}.\lfloor\theta\rfloor:=\max\{k\leq\theta:k\in\mathbb{Z}\}.

Farhi's conjecture. For each integer m3m\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 m3m\geq 3 is necessary because x2/2\lfloor x^2/2\rfloor is even for every xZx\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 m3m\geq 3; full universality for every nn remains open in general.

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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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