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.