On a ternary Diophantine problem with mixed powers of primes (Q2839288)

Let \(1<k<33/29\). In the paper under review, using the Davenport-Heilbronn version of the circle method, the authors prove that if \(\lambda_1\), \(\lambda_2\) and \(\lambda_3\) are non-zero real numbers, not all of the same sign and that \(\lambda_1/ \lambda_2\) is irrational and \(\varpi\) is any real number, then for any \(\varepsilon>0\), the inequality NEWLINE\[NEWLINE |\lambda_1p_1+\lambda_2p_2^2+\lambda_3p_3^k+\varpi|\leq (\text{max}_jp_j)^{-(33-29k)/(72k)+\varepsilon} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE has infinitely many solutions in prime variables \(p_1, p_2, p_3\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors give an estimate of the integral NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \int_X^{2X}\left(\theta((x+h)^{1/k})-\theta(x^{1/k})-((x+h)^{1/k}-x^{1/k})\right)^2dx, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE which plays a key role in the proof of the main result of this paper.