Exceptional sets for sums of five and six almost equal prime cubes (Q1715010)

The main result of this paper belongs to the category of Waring-Goldbach problems dealing with representation of positive integers as sums of powers of prime numbers. Let $N$ be a large positive integer, $x_s=(N/s)^{1/3}$, $y_s=x_s^{\theta_s}$, where $0<\theta_s<1$ and $s=5,6$. Let $E_s(x_s,y_s)$ denote the number of integers $n$ subject to certain congruence conditions such that $\vert n-N\vert \leq sx_s^2y_s$ and for which equation $n=p_1^3+\dots+p_s^3$ has no solutions in primes satisfying $\vert p_j-x_s\vert \leq y_s$, $j=1,\dots,s$. The author proves the estimate $E_s(x_s,y_s)\ll x_s^{2-\varepsilon}y_s$ with $\theta_5$ with $\theta_5=8/9+\varepsilon$ and $\theta_6=5/6+\varepsilon$ for any $\varepsilon>0$ and $s=5,6$.