{ "id": "1811.00856", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-11-02T13:42:21.000Z", "updated": "2018-11-02T13:42:21.000Z", "title": "Almost equal summands in Waring's problem with shifts", "authors": [ "Kirsti Biggs" ], "comment": "To appear in Monatsh. Math", "doi": "10.1007/s00605-018-1178-7", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "A result of Wright from 1937 shows that there are arbitrarily large natural numbers which cannot be represented as sums of $s$ $k$th powers of natural numbers which are constrained to lie within a narrow region. We show that the analogue of this result holds in the shifted version of Waring's problem.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-11-02T13:42:21.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11D75", "11P05" ], "keywords": [ "warings problem", "equal summands", "arbitrarily large natural numbers", "th powers", "result holds" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Springer" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }