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A proof of Eperson's conjecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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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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