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SUMS OF FOUR SQUARES WITH A CERTAIN RESTRICTION
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- Journal:
- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society / Volume 104 / Issue 2 / October 2021
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 14 January 2021, pp. 218-227
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- October 2021
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Z.-W. Sun [‘Refining Lagrange’s four-square theorem’, J. Number Theory175 (2017), 169–190] conjectured that every positive integer n can be written as
$ x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2\ (x,y,z,w\in \mathbb {N}=\{0,1,\ldots \})$
with
$x+3y$
a square and also as
$n=x^2+y^2+z^2+w^2\ (x,y,z,w \in \mathbb {Z})$
with
$x+3y\in \{4^k:k\in \mathbb {N}\}$
. In this paper, we confirm these conjectures via the arithmetic theory of ternary quadratic forms.
