Additive problems on $\lfloor p^c \rfloor$
Number Theory
2026-01-12 v2
Abstract
The sequence is an important subsequence of the well-known Piatetski-Shapiro sequence, where is the set of prime numbers and is the floor function. We prove that for all , any large enough integer can be represented as where and are primes. We also prove the result holds for almost all fixed positive . Moreover, we investigate shifted primes in this sequence, obtaining an asymptotic formula for all and an almost-all result for fixed positive .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.19833,
title = {Additive problems on $\lfloor p^c \rfloor$},
author = {Lingyu Guo and Victor Zhenyu Guo and Li Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19833},
year = {2026}
}