Universal sums of $m$-gonal numbers

Abstract

In this paper we study universal quadratic polynomials which arise as sums of polygonal numbers. Specifically, we determine an asymptotic upper bound (as a function of $m$) on the size of the set $S_m\subset\mathbb{N}$ such that if a sum of $m$-gonal numbers represents $S_m$, then it represents $\mathbb{N}$.