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arXiv 1609.02090math.NT
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A variant of Waring's Problem for the ring of integers modulo n

David Covert, Alex Iosevich, Jonathan Pakianathan

英文摘要:

We study a variant of Waring's problem for $\mathbb{Z}_n$, the ring of integers modulo $n$: For a fixed integer $k \geq 2$, what is the minimum number $m$ of $k$th powers necessary such that $x \equiv x_1^k + \dots + x_m^k \pmod{n}$ has a solution for every $x \in \mathbb{Z}_n$? Using only elementary methods, we answer fully this question for exponents $k \leq 10$, and we further discuss some intermediary cases such as categorizing the values of $n$ such that every element in $\mathbb{Z}_n$ can be written as a sum of three squares. Hensel's Theorem for $p$-adic integers plays a key role. Finally, we give an application of this problem to the Erd\H os-Falconer distance problem for rings $\mathbb{Z}_n^d$.

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