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Natural numbers represented by $\lfloor x^2/a\rfloor+\lfloor y^2/b\rfloor+\lfloor z^2/c\rfloor$

Published 6 Apr 2015 in math.NT | (1504.01608v8)

Abstract: Let $a,b,c$ be positive integers. It is known that there are infinitely many positive integers not representated by $ax2+by2+cz2$ with $x,y,z\in\mathbb Z$. In contrast, we conjecture that any natural number is represented by $\lfloor x2/a\rfloor+\lfloor y2/b\rfloor +\lfloor z2/c\rfloor$ with $x,y,z\in\mathbb Z$ if $(a,b,c)\not=(1,1,1),(2,2,2)$, and that any natural number is represented by $\lfloor T_x/a\rfloor+\lfloor T_y/b\rfloor+\lfloor T_z/c\rfloor$ with $x,y,z\in\mathbb Z$, where $T_x$ denotes the triangular number $x(x+1)/2$. We confirm this general conjecture in some special cases; in particular, we prove that $$\left{x2+y2+\left\lfloor\frac{z2}5\right\rfloor:\ x,y,z\in\mathbb Z\ \mbox{and}\ 2\nmid y\right}={1,2,3,\ldots}$$ and $$\left{\left\lfloor\frac{x2}m\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor\frac{y2}m\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor\frac{z2}m\right\rfloor:\ x,y,z\in\mathbb Z\right} ={0,1,2,\ldots}\ \ \mbox{for}\ m=5,6,15.$$ We also pose several conjectures for further research; for example, we conjecture that any integer can be written as $x4-y3+z2$, where $x$, $y$ and $z$ are positive integers.

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