Cubic diophantine inequalities. III (Q5948347)

This paper reports on the continuing investigation by the author of the distribution of the values of diagonal cubic forms in seven and eight variables [Mathematica 35, 51-58 (1988; Zbl 0659.10015) and J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 53, 1-18 (1996; Zbl 0858.11018)]. The results of the present paper are as follows. Under suitable conditions on the non-zero real algebraic numbers \(\lambda_1, \dots ,\lambda_s\) and for any \(\mu \in \mathbb R\), the inequality \[ |\lambda_1 x^3_1+\dots +\lambda_s x^3_s-\mu|<\left(\max_{i=1,\dots,s}|x_i|\right)^{-\sigma} \] has infinitely many integral solutions provided \(\sigma \leq \frac{23}{90}\) when \(s=8\), and \(\sigma \leq \frac{1}{360}\) when \(s=7\).