An Equidistribution Result for Differences Associated with Square Pyramidal Numbers

Abstract

We provide an asymptotic formula for the average value of the sequence A351830: $a_{n} = |P_{n} - y^{2}_{n}|$ for $1 \leq n \leq x$, where $P_{n}$ is the $n$-th square pyramidal number and $y^{2}_{n}$ is the closest square to $P_{n}$. Moreover, we supply asymptotic formulas for the $k$-th moment of the same sequence, for any fixed natural number $k$.