OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Fermat asserted that every number is the sum of three triangular numbers. This was proved by Gauss, who recorded in his Tagebuch entry for Jul 10 1796 that: EYPHEKA! num = DELTA + DELTA + DELTA. See also Gauss, DA, art. 293.
Ramanujan theta functions: f(q) (see A121373), phi(q) (A000122), psi(q) (A010054), chi(q) (A000700).
Andrews (2016), Theorem 2, shows that A008443(n) = A290735(n) + A290737(n) + A290739(n). = N. J. A. Sloane, Aug 10 2017
REFERENCES
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups", Springer-Verlag, p. 102.
C. F. Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, Yale University Press, 1966, New Haven and London, p. 342, art. 293.
M. Nathanson, Additive Number Theory: The Classical Bases, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Volume 165, Springer-Verlag, 1996. See Chapter 1.
LINKS
N. J. A. Sloane, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..20000 (first 5050 terms from T. D. Noe)
George E. Andrews, EYPHKA! num = Delta + Delta + Delta, J. Number Theory 23 (1986), 285-293. [The Y in the title is really the Greek letter Upsilon and Delta is really the Greek letter of that name.]
George E. Andrews, The Bhargava-Adiga Summation and Partitions, 2016.
M. Doring, J. Haidenbauer, U.-G. Meissner, and A. Rusetsky, Dynamical coupled-channel approaches on a momentum lattice, arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0676 [hep-lat], 2011.
M. D. Hirschhorn and J. A. Sellers, Partitions into three triangular numbers, Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 30 (2004), Pages 307-318; Submission.
M. D. Hirschhorn and J. A. Sellers, On Representations Of A Number As A Sum Of Three Triangles, Acta Arithmetica 77 (1996), 289-301.
K. Ono, S. Robins, and P. T. Wahl, On the representation of integers as sums of triangular numbers, Aequationes mathematicae, August 1995, Volume 50, Issue 1-2, pp 73-94.
Michael Somos, Introduction to Ramanujan theta functions.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ramanujan Theta Functions.
FORMULA
Expansion of Jacobi theta constant theta_2^3 /8. G.f. is cube of g.f. for A010054.
Expansion of psi(q)^3 in powers of q where psi() is a Ramanujan theta function (A010054). - Michael Somos, Oct 25 2006
Expansion of q^(-3/8) * (eta(q^2)^2 / eta(q))^3 in powers of q. - Michael Somos, May 29 2012
Euler transform of period 2 sequence [ 3, -3, ...]. - Michael Somos, Oct 25 2006
G.f. is a period 1 Fourier series which satisfies f(-1 / (16 t)) = 2^(-3/2) (t/i)^(3/2) g(t) where q = exp(2 Pi i t) and g() is the g.f. for A213384. - Michael Somos, Jun 23 2012
a(3*n) = A213627(n). a(3*n + 1) = 3 * A213617(n). a(3*n + 2) = A181648(n). - Michael Somos, Jun 23 2012
G.f.: (Sum_{k>0} x^((k^2 - k)/2))^3 = (Product_{k>0} (1 + x^k) * (1 - x^(2*k)))^3. - Michael Somos, May 29 2012
a(n) = A005875(8*n+3)/8. See, e.g., the Ono et al. link: The case k=3. - Wolfdieter Lang, Jan 12 2017
a(0) = 1, a(n) = (3/n)*Sum_{k=1..n} A002129(k)*a(n-k) for n > 0. - Seiichi Manyama, May 06 2017
EXAMPLE
5 can be written as 3+1+1, 1+3+1, 1+1+3, so a(5) = 3.
G.f. = 1 + 3*x + 3*x^2 + 4*x^3 + 6*x^4 + 3*x^5 + 6*x^6 + 9*x^7 + 3*x^8 + ...
G.f. = q^3 + 3*q^11 + 3*q^19 + 4*q^27 + 6*q^35 + 3*q^43 + 6*q^51 + 9*q^59 + 3*q^67 + ...
MAPLE
s1 := sum(q^(n*(n+1)/2), n=0..30): s2 := series(s1^3, q, 250): for i from 0 to 200 do printf(`%d, `, coeff(s2, q, i)) od:
MATHEMATICA
s1 = Sum[q^(n (n + 1)/2), {n, 0, 12}]; s2 = Series[s1^3, {q, 0, 80}]; CoefficientList[s2, q] (* Jean-François Alcover, Oct 04 2011, after Maple *)
a[ n_] := SeriesCoefficient[ (1/8) EllipticTheta[ 2, 0, q]^3, {q, 0, 2 n + 3/4}]; (* Michael Somos, May 29 2012 *)
QP = QPochhammer; CoefficientList[(QP[q^2]^2/QP[q])^3 + O[q]^80, q] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 24 2015 *)
PROG
(PARI) {a(n) = if( n<0, 0, polcoeff( sum(k=0, (sqrtint(8*n + 1) - 1)\2, x^((k^2 + k)/2), x * O(x^n))^3, n))}; /* Michael Somos, Oct 25 2006 */
(PARI) {a(n) = my(A); if( n<0, 0, A = x * O(x^n); polcoeff( (eta(x^2 + A)^2 / eta(x + A))^3, n))}; /* Michael Somos, Oct 25 2006 */
(Magma) Basis( ModularForms( Gamma0(16), 3/2), 630)[4]; /* Michael Somos, Aug 26 2015 */
CROSSREFS
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AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from James A. Sellers, Feb 07 2001
STATUS
approved