login
The OEIS is supported by the many generous donors to the OEIS Foundation.

 

Logo
Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A160324 Number of ways to express n as the sum of a square, a pentagonal number and a hexagonal number. 11
1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 3, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 4, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 3, 3, 2, 3, 5, 4, 5, 2, 5, 5, 2, 2, 1, 6, 8, 5, 2, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 3, 2, 5, 7, 7, 5, 4, 7, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 6, 3, 2, 5, 5, 9, 7, 3, 3, 6, 9, 5, 3, 1, 8, 7, 6, 2, 5, 6, 3, 10, 4, 3, 3, 8, 7, 5, 4, 1, 4, 10, 7, 5, 4, 8, 6, 2, 8, 6, 10, 7, 5 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
In April 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun conjectured that a(n)>0 for every n=0,1,2,3,.... Note that pentagonal numbers and hexagonal numbers are more sparse than squares and that there are infinitely many positive integers which cannot be written as the sum of three squares.
On Aug 12 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun made the following general conjecture on diagonal representations by polygonal numbers: For each integer m>2, any natural number n can be written in the form p_{m+1}(x_1)+...+p_{2m}(x_m) with x_1,...,x_m nonnegative integers, where p_k(x)=(k-2)x(x-1)/2+x (x=0,1,2,...) are k-gonal numbers. Sun has verified this with m=3 for n up to 10^6, and with m=4,5,6,7,8,9,10 for n up to 5*10^5. - Zhi-Wei Sun, Aug 15 2009
On Aug 21 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun formulated the following strong version for his conjecture on diagonal representations by polygonal numbers: For any integer m>2, each natural number n can be expressed as p_{m+1}(x_1)+p_{m+2}(x_2)+p_{m+3}(x_3)+r with x_1,x_2,x_3 nonnegative integers and r an integer among 0,...,m-3. For m=3 and m=4,5,6,7,8,9,10, Sun has verified this conjecture for n up to 10^6 and 5*10^5 respectively. Sun also guessed that for each m=3,4,... all sufficiently large integers have the form p_{m+1}(x_1)+p_{m+2}(x_2)+p_{m+3}(x_3) with x_1,x_2,x_3 nonnegative integers. For example, it seems that 387904 is the largest integer not in the form p_{20}(x_1)+p_{21}(x_2)+p_{22}(x_3). - Zhi-Wei Sun, Aug 21 2009
On Sep 04 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun conjectured that the sequence contains every positive integer. For n=1,2,3,... let s(n) denote the least nonnegative integer m such that a(m)=n. Here is the list of s(1),...,s(30): 0, 9, 1, 6, 16, 36, 50, 37, 66, 82, 167, 121, 162, 236, 226, 276, 302, 446, 478, 532, 457, 586, 677, 521, 666, 852, 976, 877, 1006, 1046. - Zhi-Wei Sun, Sep 04 2009
LINKS
M. B. Nathanson, A short proof of Cauchy's polygonal number theorem, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 99(1987), 22-24.
Zhi-Wei Sun, Various new conjectures involving polygonal numbers and primes (a message to Number Theory List), May 2009.
Zhi-Wei Sun, On universal sums of polygonal numbers, preprint, arXiv:0905.0635 [math.NT], 2009.
FORMULA
a(n)=|{<x,y,z>: x,y,z=0,1,2,... & x^2+(3y^2-y)/2+(2z^2-z)=n}|
EXAMPLE
For n=10 the a(10)=4 solutions are 4+0+6, 4+5+1, 9+0+1, 9+1+0.
MATHEMATICA
SQ[x_]:=x>-1&&IntegerPart[Sqrt[x]]^2==x RN[n_]:=Sum[If[SQ[n-(3y^2-y)/2-(2z^2-z)], 1, 0], {y, 0, Sqrt[n]}, {z, 0, Sqrt[Max[0, n-(3y^2-y)/2]]}] Do[Print[n, " ", RN[n]], {n, 0, 50000}]
planeFiguratePi[n_, r_] := Floor[((r -4) + Sqrt[(r -4)^2 + 8n (r -2)])/(2 (r -2))]; z[r_] := PolygonalNumber[r, Range[0, planeFiguratePi[mx, r]]]; mx = 105; Join[{1}, Take[Transpose[ Tally[ Sort[ Plus @@@ FlattenAt[ Tuples[{z[4], z[5], z[6]}], 2]]]][[2]], {2, mx}]] (* Robert G. Wilson v, May 22 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A266509 A266539 A090569 * A347026 A197928 A109439
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Zhi-Wei Sun, May 08 2009
STATUS
approved

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Style Sheet | Transforms | Superseeker | Recents
The OEIS Community | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

License Agreements, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy. .

Last modified August 23 16:31 EDT 2024. Contains 375396 sequences. (Running on oeis4.)