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Partitions into Polynomial Values

Presenter
February 2, 2017
Keywords:
  • partitions
  • Hardy-Littlewood Circle Method
  • exponential sums
MSC:
  • 11L03
  • 11P05
  • 11P55
  • 11P82
Abstract
In 1918, Hardy and Ramanujan published a seminal paper which included an asymptotic formula for the partition function. In their paper, they also state without proof an asymptotic equivalence for the number of partitions of a number into k-th powers. In this talk, I will present an asymptotic formula for the number of partitions into k-th powers using a relatively simple method, verifying the claim of Hardy and Ramanujan. We will then discuss extensions of this result to partitions into integer values of polynomials.