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A problem in additive number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Jörg Brüdern
Affiliation:
Geismar Landstrasse 97, 3400 Göttingen, West Germany

Extract

The determination of the minimal s such that all large natural numbers n admit a representation as

is an interesting problem in the additive theory of numbers and has a considerable literature, For historical comments the reader is referred to the author's paper [2] where the best currently known result is proved. The purpose here is a further improvement.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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