Riv. Mat. Univ. Parma, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2021

Jörg Brüdern [a]

Roth's ascending powers in the primes

Pages: 29-40
Received: 2 February 2020
Accepted: 3 April 2020
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 11P55.
Keywords: Waring-Goldbach problems, Hardy-Littlewood method.
Author address:
[a]: Universität Göttingen, Mathematisches Institut, Bunsenstrasse 3-5, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

This research was partially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Abstract: The number of variables in Roth's ascending powers problem with prime variables is reduced by three.

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