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PRIMES REPRESENTED BY INCOMPLETE NORM FORMS

Part of: Multiplicative number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2020

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JAMES MAYNARD*
Affiliation:
Magdalen College, Oxford, EnglandOX1 4AU, UK; james.alexander.maynard@gmail.com

Abstract

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Let $K=\mathbb{Q}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D714})$ with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}$ the root of a degree $n$ monic irreducible polynomial $f\in \mathbb{Z}[X]$. We show that the degree $n$ polynomial $N(\sum _{i=1}^{n-k}x_{i}\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}^{i-1})$ in $n-k$ variables takes the expected asymptotic number of prime values if $n\geqslant 4k$. In the special case $K=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[n]{\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}})$, we show that $N(\sum _{i=1}^{n-k}x_{i}\sqrt[n]{\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}^{i-1}})$ takes infinitely many prime values, provided $n\geqslant 22k/7$.

Our proof relies on using suitable ‘Type I’ and ‘Type II’ estimates in Harman’s sieve, which are established in a similar overall manner to the previous work of Friedlander and Iwaniec on prime values of $X^{2}+Y^{4}$ and of Heath-Brown on $X^{3}+2Y^{3}$. Our proof ultimately relies on employing explicit elementary estimates from the geometry of numbers and algebraic geometry to control the number of highly skewed lattices appearing in our final estimates.

MSC classification

Primary: 11N05: Distribution of primes
Secondary: 11N35: Sieves 11N32: Primes represented by polynomials; other multiplicative structure of polynomial values

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Number Theory
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Forum of Mathematics, Pi , Volume 8 , 2020 , e3
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