Simultaneous cubic and quadratic diagonal equations in 12 prime variables

DOI10.1007/S11139-021-00386-YMaRDI QIDQ2115263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Talmage

Publication date 15 March 2022

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01433

zbMATH Keywords

diagonal formsDiophantine equationsHardy-Littlewood circle methodWaring-Goldbach problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waring's problem and variants (11P05) Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes (11P32)

Abstract: The system of equations [ u_1p_1^2 + ldots + u_sp_s^2 = 0 ] [ v_1p_1^3 + ldots + v_sp_s^3 = 0 ] has prime solutions $(p_1,ldots,p_s)$ for $sgeq12$, assuming that the system has solutions modulo each prime $p$. This is proved via the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, building on Wooley's work on the corresponding system over the integers and recent results on Vinogradov's mean value theorem. Additionally, a set of sufficient conditions for local solvability is given: If both equations are solvable modulo 2, the quadratic equation is solvable modulo 3, and for each prime $p$ at least 7 of each of the $u_i$, $v_i$ are not zero modulo $p$, then the system has solutions modulo each prime $p$.

Review text

This a detailed technical paper on an application of the circle method. The main result is the existence of prime solutions \(x_i=p_i\) of the following system: \[ \sum_{j=1}^s u_j x_j^2 =0, \] \[ \sum_{j=1}^s v_j x_j^3 =0, \] where \(s \geq 12\), and \(u_i,v_j\) are fixed integers, provided that the system is locally solvable modulo any prime number \(p\). The author gives explicit sufficient conditions for local solvability. Moreover, one finds a Sage computer program to help treat the case of some small primes.

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