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PRIME SOLUTIONS TO POLYNOMIAL EQUATIONS IN MANY VARIABLES AND DIFFERING DEGREES

Part of:Additive number theory; partitionsDiophantine equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2018

SHUNTARO YAMAGISHI
SHUNTARO YAMAGISHI*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada; sy46@queensu.ca

Abstract

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Let $\mathbf{f}=(f_{1},\ldots ,f_{R})$ be a system of polynomials with integer coefficients in which the degrees need not all be the same. We provide sufficient conditions for which the system of equations $f_{j}(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n})=0~(1\leqslant j\leqslant R)$ satisfies a general local to global type statement, and has a solution where each coordinate is prime. In fact we obtain the asymptotic formula for number of such solutions, counted with a logarithmic weight, under these conditions. We prove the statement via the Hardy–Littlewood circle method. This is a generalization of the work of Cook and Magyar [‘Diophantine equations in the primes’, Invent. Math.198 (2014), 701–737], where they obtained the result when the polynomials of $\mathbf{f}$ all have the same degree. Hitherto, results of this type for systems of polynomial equations involving different degrees have been restricted to the diagonal case.

MSC classification

Primary:11P32: Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes11P55: Applications of the Hardy-Littlewood method
Secondary:11D45: Counting solutions of Diophantine equations11D72: Equations in many variables

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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 6 , 2018, e19
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