Waring and Waring-Goldbach subbases with prescribed representation function

Christian Táfula

Let $h\ge 2$. For $A\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ write \[ r_{A,h}(n) := \#\{(x_1,\ldots,x_h)\in A^h ~|~ x_1+\cdots+x_h=n\}. \] We prove a general probabilistic subbasis principle: assumi…