A Diophantine problem with unlike powers of primes (Q2034581)

Summary: Let \(k\) be an integer with \(4\leq k\leq 6\) and \(\eta\) be any real number. Suppose that \(\lambda_1\), \(\lambda_2,\dots, \lambda_5\) are nonzero real numbers, not all of them have the same sign, and \(\lambda_1/ \lambda_2\) is irrational. It is proved that the inequality \[ |\lambda_1 p_1 + \lambda_2 p_2^2 + \lambda_3 p_3^3 + \lambda_4 p_4^4 + \lambda_5 p_5^k + \eta|< (\max_{1 \leq j \leq 5} p_j)^{-\sigma (k)} \] has infinitely many solutions in prime variables \(p_1, p_2, p_3, p_4\), and \(p_5\), where \(0<\sigma (4)<1/36\), \(0<\sigma (5)<4/189\), and \(0<\sigma (6)<1/54\). This gives an improvement of the recent results.