The polynomials $X^2+(Y^2+1)^2$ and $X^{2} + (Y^3+Z^3)^2$ also capture their primes
Abstract
We show that there are infinitely many primes of the form and . This extends the work of Friedlander and Iwaniec showing that there are infinitely many primes of the form . More precisely, Friedlander and Iwaniec obtained an asymptotic formula for the number of primes of this form. For the sequences and we establish Type II information that is too narrow for an aysmptotic formula, but we can use Harman's sieve method to produce a lower bound of the correct order of magnitude for primes of form and . Estimating the Type II sums is reduced to a counting problem which is solved by using the Weil bound, where the arithmetic input is quite different from the work of Friedlander and Iwaniec for . We also show that there are infinitely many primes where is represented by an incomplete norm form of degree with variables. For this we require a Deligne-type bound for correlations of hyper-Kloosterman sums.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.03617,
title = {The polynomials $X^2+(Y^2+1)^2$ and $X^{2} + (Y^3+Z^3)^2$ also capture their primes},
author = {Jori Merikoski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.03617},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
v3: Corrections to some parts of the proofs v2: Added Theorem 3 on primes p=a^2+N(b_1,...,b_{k-1})^2, where N is an incomplete norm form od degree k, small corrections elsewhere