Department of Mathematics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784 Korea
Abstract:
Lagrange proved a theorem which states that every nonnegative integer can be written as a sum of four squares. This result can be generalized as the polygonal number theorem and the Hilbert-Waring problem. In this paper, we shall generalize Lagrange's sum of four squares theorem further. To each regular polytope in a Euclidean space, we will associate a sequence of nonnegative integers which we shall call regular polytope numbers, and consider the problem of finding the order of the set of regular polytope numbers associated to .