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On Waring's problem for smaller exponents. II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

R. C. Vaughan
R. C. Vaughan
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Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, Queen's Gate, London. SW7 2BZ
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Let k denote a fixed natural number with k > 2, let ℛs(n) denote the number of representations of n as the sum of sk-th powers of natural numbers, and let

with

denote the corresponding singular series.

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Mathematika , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , June 1986 , pp. 6 - 22
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Copyright © University College London 1986

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