{ "id": "1806.10136", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-06-26T09:19:53.000Z", "updated": "2018-06-26T09:19:53.000Z", "title": "On the almost universality of $\\lfloor x^2/a\\rfloor+\\lfloor y^2/b\\rfloor+\\lfloor z^2/c\\rfloor$", "authors": [ "Hai-Liang Wu", "He-Xia Ni", "Hao Pan" ], "comment": "arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1806.02105", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "For each real number $r$, let $\\lfloor r\\rfloor$ denote the integral part of $r$. In this paper, with the help of congruence theta functions, we obtain the following results: (i) For each integer $m\\ge3$, every sufficiently large integer $n$ can be written as $$\\lfloor x^2/m\\rfloor+\\lfloor y^2/m\\rfloor+\\lfloor z^2/m\\rfloor,$$ with $x,y,z\\in\\Z$. (ii) For any integers $a,b,c\\ge5$, assume that $a,b,c$ are pairwisely coprime, then every sufficiently large integer $n$ can be written as $$\\lfloor x^2/a\\rfloor+\\lfloor y^2/b\\rfloor+\\lfloor z^2/c\\rfloor,$$ with $x,y,z\\in\\Z$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-06-26T09:19:53.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "sufficiently large integer", "universality", "congruence theta functions", "real number", "integral part" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }