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A005875 Theta series of simple cubic lattice; also number of ways of writing a nonnegative integer n as a sum of 3 squares (zero being allowed).

1, 6, 12, 8, 6, 24, 24, 0, 12, 30, 24, 24, 8, 24, 48, 0, 6, 48, 36, 24, 24, 48, 24, 0, 24, 30, 72, 32, 0, 72, 48, 0, 12, 48, 48, 48, 30, 24, 72, 0, 24, 96, 48, 24, 24, 72, 48, 0, 8, 54, 84, 48, 24, 72, 96, 0, 48, 48, 24, 72, 0, 72, 96, 0, 6, 96, 96, 24, 48, 96, 48, 0, 36, 48, 120

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N. J. A. Sloane

Number of ordered triples (i, j, k) of integers such that n = i^2 + j^2 + k^2.
The Madelung Coulomb energy for alternating unit charges in the simple cubic lattice is Sum_{n>=1} (-1)^n*a(n)/sqrt(n) = -A085469. - R. J. Mathar, Apr 29 2006
a(A004215(k))=0 for k=1,2,3,... but no other elements of {a(n)} are zero. - Graeme McRae, Jan 15 2007

			Order and signs are taken into account: a(1) = 6 from 1 = (+-1)^2 + 0^2 + 0^2, a(2) = 12 from 2 = (+-1)^2 + (+-1)^2 + 0^2; a(3) = 8 from 3 = (+-1)^2 + (+-1)^2 + (+-1)^2, etc.
G.f. =  1 + 6*q + 12*q^2 + 8*q^3 + 6*q^4 + 24*q^5 + 24*q^6 + 12*q^8 + 30*q^9 + 24*q^10 + ...

H. Cohen, Number Theory, Vol. 1: Tools and Diophantine Equations, Springer-Verlag, 2007, p. 317.
J. H. Conway and N. J. A. Sloane, "Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups", Springer-Verlag, p. 107.
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L. E. Dickson, History of the Theory of Numbers. Carnegie Institute Public. 256, Washington, DC, Vol. 1, 1919; Vol. 2, 1920; Vol. 3, 1923, see vol. 3, p. 109.
E. Grosswald, Representations of Integers as Sums of Squares. Springer-Verlag, NY, 1985, p. 54.
L. Kronecker, Crelle, Vol. LVII (1860), p. 248; Werke, Vol. IV, p. 188.
C. J. Moreno and S. S. Wagstaff, Jr., Sums of Squares of Integers, Chapman and Hall, 2006, p. 43.
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W. Sierpiński, 1925. Teorja Liczb. pp. 1-410 (p.61).
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
H. J. S. Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers, reprinted in Vol. 1 of his Collected Math. Papers, Chelsea, NY, 1979, see p. 338, Eq. (B').

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000
George E. Andrews, The Bhargava-Adiga Summation and Partitions, 2016. See Lemma 2.1.
P. T. Bateman, On the representations of a number as the sum of three squares, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 71 (1951), 70-101.
S. Bhargava and C. Adiga, A basic bilateral series summation formula and its applications, Integral Transforms and Special Functions, 2 (1994), 165-184.
J. M. Borwein, K-K S. Choi, On Dirichlet series for sums of squares, Raman. J. 7 (2003) 95-127
S. K. K. Choi, A. V. Kumchev, and R. Osburn, On sums of three squares, arXiv:math/0502007 [math.NT], 2005.
M. Doring, J. Haidenbauer, U.-G. Meissner, and A. Rusetsky, Dynamical coupled-channel approaches on a momentum lattice, arXiv:1108.0676 [hep-lat], 2011.
J. A. Ewell, Recursive determination of the enumerator for sums of three squares, Internat. J. Math. and Math. Sci, 24 (2000), 529-532.
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M. D. Hirschhorn and J. A. Sellers, On Representations of a Number as a Sum of Three Squares, Discrete Mathematics 199 (1999), 85-101.
M. D. Hirschhorn and J. A. Sellers, On Representations Of A Number As A Sum Of Three Squares
A. Martinez Torres, L. R. Dai, C. Koren, D. Jido, and E. Oset, The KD, eta D_s interaction in finite volume and the D_{s^*0}(2317) resonance, arXiv:1109.0396 [hep-lat], 2011.
R. J. Mathar, Hierarchical Subdivision of the Simple Cubic Lattice, arXiv:1309.3705 [math.MG], 2013.
S. C. Milne, Infinite families of exact sums of squares formulas, Jacobi elliptic functions, continued fractions and Schur functions, Ramanujan J., 6 (2002), 7-149.
J. L. Mordell, The Representation Of Integers By Three Positive Squares, Michigan Math. J. 7(3): 289-290 (1960).
Eric T. Mortenson, A Kronecker-type identity and the representations of a number as a sum of three squares, arXiv:1702.01627 [math.NT], 2017.
G. Nebe and N. J. A. Sloane, Home page for this lattice
Michael Somos, Introduction to Ramanujan theta functions
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Theta Series
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Ramanujan Theta Functions
Index entries for sequences related to sums of squares

Row d=3 of A122141 and of A319574, 3rd column of A286815.
Cf. A074590 (primitive solutions), A117609 (partial sums), A004215 (positions of zeros).
Analog for 4 squares: A000118.
x^2+y^2+k*z^2: A005875, A014455, A034933, A169783, A169784.
Cf. A000164, A004013, A004015, A008443, A045828, A045831, A045834, A213384.
Ramanujan theta functions: f(q) (see A121373), phi(q) (A000122), psi(q) (A010054), chi(q) (A000700).

# JacobiTheta3 is defined in A000122.
A005875List(len) = JacobiTheta3(len, 3)
A005875List(75) |> println # Peter Luschny, Mar 12 2018

Basis( ModularForms( Gamma1(4), 3/2), 75) [1]; /* Michael Somos, Jun 25 2014 */

(sum(x^(m^2),m=-10..10))^3; seq(coeff(%,x,n), n=0..50);
Alternative:
A005875list := proc(len) series(JacobiTheta3(0, x)^3, x, len+1);
seq(coeff(%, x, j), j=0..len-1) end: A005875list(75); # Peter Luschny, Oct 02 2018

SquaresR[3,Range[0,80]] (* Harvey P. Dale, Jul 21 2011 *)
a[ n_] := SeriesCoefficient[ EllipticTheta[ 3, 0, q]^3, {q, 0, n}]; (* Michael Somos, Jun 25 2014 *)
a[ n_] := Length @ FindInstance[ n == x^2 + y^2 + z^2, {x, y, z}, Integers, 10^9]; (* Michael Somos, May 21 2015 *)
QP = QPochhammer; CoefficientList[(QP[q^2]^5/(QP[q]*QP[q^4])^2)^3 + O[q]^80, q] (* Jean-François Alcover, Nov 24 2015 *)

{a(n) = if( n<0, 0, polcoeff( sum( k=1, sqrtint(n), 2 * x^k^2, 1 + x * O(x^n))^3, n))};

{a(n) = my(A); if( n<0, 0, A = x * O(x^n); polcoeff( (eta(x^2 + A)^5 / (eta(x + A) * eta(x^4 + A))^2)^3, n))}; /* Michael Somos, Jun 03 2012 */

{a(n) = my(G); if( n<0, 0, G = [ 1, 0, 0; 0, 1, 0; 0, 0, 1]; polcoeff( 1 + 2 * x * Ser( qfrep( G, n)), n))}; /* Michael Somos, May 21 2015 */

# uses Python code for A004018
from math import isqrt
def A005875(n): return A004018(n)+(sum(A004018(n-k**2) for k in range(1,isqrt(n)+1))<<1) # Chai Wah Wu, Jun 21 2024

Q = DiagonalQuadraticForm(ZZ, [1]*3)
Q.representation_number_list(75) # Peter Luschny, Jun 20 2014

A number n is representable as the sum of 3 squares iff n is not of the form 4^a (8k+7) (cf. A000378).
There is a classical formula (essentially due to Gauss):
For sums of 3 squares r_3(n): write (uniquely) -n=D(2^vf)^2, with D<0 fundamental discriminant, f odd, v>=-1. Then r_3(n) = 12L((D/.),0)(1-(D/2)) Sum_{d | f} mu(d)(D/d)sigma(f/d).
Here mu is the Moebius function, (D/2) and (D/d) are Kronecker-Legendre symbols, sigma is the sum of divisors function, L((D/.),0)=h(D)/(w(D)/2) is the value at 0 of the L function of the quadratic character (D/.), equal to the class number h(D) divided by 2 or 3 in the special cases D=-4 and -3. - Henri Cohen (Henri.Cohen(AT)math.u-bordeaux1.fr), May 12 2010
a(n) = 3*T(n) if n == 1,2,5,6 mod 8, = 2*T(n) if n == 3 mod 8, = 0 if n == 7 mod 8 and = a(n/4) if n == 0 mod 4, where T(n) = A117726(n). [Moreno-Wagstaff].
"If 12E(n) is the number of representations of n as a sum of three squares, then E(n) = 2F(n) - G(n) where G(n) = number of classes of determinant -n, F(n) = number of uneven classes." - Dickson, quoting Kronecker. [Cf. A117726.]
a(n) = Sum_{d^2|n} b(n/d^2), where b() = A074590() gives the number of primitive solutions.
Expansion of phi(q)^3 in powers of q where phi() is a Ramanujan theta function. - Michael Somos, Oct 25 2006.
Euler transform of period 4 sequence [ 6, -9, 6, -3, ...]. - Michael Somos, Oct 25 2006
G.f.: (Sum_{k in Z} x^(k^2))^3.
a(8*n + 7) = 0. a(4*n) = a(n).
a(n) = A004015(2*n) = A014455(2*n) = A004013(4*n) = A169783(4*n). a(4*n + 1) = 6 * A045834(n). a(8*n + 3) = 8 * A008443(n). a(8*n + 5) = 24 * A045831(n). - Michael Somos, Jun 03 2012
a(4*n + 2) = 12 * A045828(n). - Michael Somos, Sep 03 2014
a(n) = (-1)^n * A213384(n). - Michael Somos, May 21 2015
a(n) = (6/n)*Sum_{k=1..n} A186690(k)*a(n-k), a(0) = 1. - Seiichi Manyama, May 27 2017
a(n) = A004018(n) + 2*Sum_{k=1..floor(sqrt(n))} A004018(n - k^2). - Daniel Suteu, Aug 27 2021
Convolution cube of A000122. Convolution of A004018 and A000122. - R. J. Mathar, Aug 03 2025

More terms from James Sellers, Aug 22 2000

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