Generalisations of Lagrange’s four-square theorem
For which positive integers \(a, b, c, d\), any natural number \(n\) can be represented as \[n=ax^2+by^2+cz^2+dw^2,\] where \(x, y,z,w\) are integers? Lagrange’s four-square theorem states that \((a,b,c,d)=(1,1,1,1)\) works. Ramanujan …
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