Small Prime Solutions to Cubic Diophantine Equations

Liu, Zhixin

Canadian mathematical bulletin, Tome 56 (2013) no. 4, pp. 785-794

Résumé

Let ${{a}_{1}},...,{{a}_{9}}$ be nonzero integers and $n$ any integer. Suppose that ${{a}_{1}}+\cdot \cdot \cdot +{{a}_{9}}\,\equiv \,n\,\left( \bmod \,2 \right)$ and $\left( {{a}_{i}},\,{{a}_{j}} \right)\,=\,1$ for $1\,\le \,i\,<\,j\,\le \,9$ . In this paper we prove the following:(i) If ${{a}_{j}}$ are not all of the same sign, then the cubic equation ${{a}_{1}}p_{1}^{3}\,+\cdot \cdot \cdot +\,{{a}_{9}}\,p_{9}^{3}\,=\,n$ has prime solutions satisfying ${{p}_{j}}\,\ll \,{{\left| n \right|}^{{1}/{3}\;}}\,+\,\max {{\left\{ \left| {{a}_{j}} \right| \right\}}^{14+\varepsilon }}$ .(ii) If all ${{a}_{j}}$ are positive and $n\,\gg \,\max {{\left\{ \left| {{a}_{j}} \right| \right\}}^{43+\varepsilon }}$ , then ${{a}_{1}}p_{1}^{3}\,+\cdot \cdot \cdot +\,{{a}_{9}}\,p_{9}^{3}\,=\,n$ is solvable in primes ${{p}_{j}}$ .These results are an extension of the linear and quadratic relative problems.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CMB-2012-025-0

Mots-clés : 11P32, 11P05, 11P55, small prime, Waring–Goldbach problem, circle method

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