Piatetski-Shapiro primes from almost primes (Q398684)

For any natural number \(r\), let \(\mathbb{N}_r\) denote the set of \(r\)-almost primes, i.e., the set of natural numbers having at most \(r\) prime factors, counted with multiplicity. In the paper under review, the authors prove that for any fixed \(c\in(1,77/76)\) one has \[ \#\left\{n\leq x : n\in\mathbb{N}_8\text{ and }\lfloor n^c\rfloor \text{is~prime}\right\}\gg\frac{x}{\log^2 x}, \] where the implied constant depends only on \(c\).