On the sum of a prime power and a power in short intervals

Abstract: Let

R_{k, e l l} (N)

be the representation function for the sum of the

k

-th power of a prime and the

e l l

-th power of a positive integer. Languasco and Zaccagnini (2017) proved an asymptotic formula for the average of

R_{1, 2} (N)

over short intervals

(X, X + H]

of the length

H

slightly shorter than

X^{f r a c 12}

, which is shorter than the length

H = X^{f r a c 12 + e p s i l o n}

in the exceptional set estimates of Mikawa (1993) and of Perelli and Pintz (1995). In this paper, we prove that the same asymptotic formula for

R_{1, 2} (N)

holds for

H

of the size

X^{0.337}

. Recently, Languasco and Zaccagnini (2018) extended their result to more general

(k, e l l)

. We also consider this general case, and as a corollary, we prove a conditional result of Languasco and Zaccagnini (2018) for the case

e l l = 2

unconditionally up to some small factors.

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