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A127308 Number of ways of writing the n-th prime p(n) as a sum of 24 squares. +0
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1104, 16192, 1362336, 44981376, 6631997376, 41469483552, 793229226336, 2697825744960, 22063059606912, 282507110257440, 588326886375936, 4119646755044256, 12742799887509216, 21517654506205632, 57242599902057216 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

Deligne proved that |a(n) - (16/691)*(p(n)^11 + 1)| <= (66304/691)*sqrt(p(n)^11).

REFERENCES

E. Grosswald, Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1985, p. 107.

Barry Mazur, The Structure of Error Terms in Number Theory and an Introduction to the Sato-Tate Conjecture, Current Events Bulletin, Amer. Math. Soc., 2007.

Barry Mazur, Controlling our errors, Nature 443, 7 (2006) 38-40.

Barry Mazur, Finding meaning in error terms, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 45 (No. 2, 2008), 185-228.

LINKS

N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..70

Barry Mazur, The Structure of Error Terms in Number Theory and an Introduction to the Sato-Tate Conjecture

Barry Mazur, Controlling our errors

Tony Phillips, Math in the Media

FORMULA

a(n) ~ (16/691)*(p(n)^11 + 1) as n -> oo.

EXAMPLE

For p(1) = 2, two of the 24 squares are (+-1)^2 and the other 22 are 0^2, so a(1) = 2*2*binomial(24,2) = 4*276 = 1104.

MATHEMATICA

Needs["NumberTheory`NumberTheoryFunctions`"]; Table[SumOfSquaresR[24, Prime[n]], {n, 1, 70}]

CROSSREFS

a(n) = A000156(p(n)).

Cf. A000594.

Adjacent sequences: A127305 A127306 A127307 this_sequence A127309 A127310 A127311

Sequence in context: A080317 A068279 A060519 this_sequence A022055 A008688 A107519

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Jonathan Sondow (jsondow(AT)alumni.princeton.edu), Jan 10 2007

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