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A proof of Eperson's conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Michael D. Hirschhorn
Michael D. Hirschhorn*
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School of Mathematics, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia, email: m.hirschhorn@unsw.edu.au
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Eperson's conjecture is that if n ⩾ 3 is odd then 3n2 can be written in at least two ways as a sum of three squares. We shall give a fairly elementary proof of this, from scratch.

Let q be a real or complex number with

Define for n ⩾ 1.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 84 , Issue 501 , November 2000 , pp. 442 - 446
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2000

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