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Sums of Powers in Arithmetic Progressions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charles Small
Charles Small*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
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The papers [2] and [3] study the function g(k, n), defined for integers k > 1 and n > 1 as the smallest r with the property that every integer is a sum of r kth powers mod n. This note identifies g′(k), defined as the maximum over all n of g(k, n), with the function Γ(k) studied by Hardy and Littlewood [1] fifty years ago in connection with Waring's problem.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , 01 December 1978 , pp. 505 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

References

1. Hardy, G. H., Littlewood, J. E., and Pôlya, G., Inequalities. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1934.Google Scholar
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3. Whiteley, J. N., A generalization of a Theorem of Newton. Proc. American Math. Soc. 13 (1962), 144-151.Google Scholar