International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 24 (2000), Issue 8, Pages 529-532
doi:10.1155/S0161171200003902

Recursive determination of the enumerator for sums of three squares.

John A. Ewell

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb 60115, IL, USA

Abstract

For each nonnegative integer n, r3(n) denotes the number of representations of n by sums of three squares. Here presented is a two-step recursive scheme for computing r3(n), n0.