{ "id": "1607.05773", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-07-19T22:24:30.000Z", "updated": "2016-07-19T22:24:30.000Z", "title": "Almost prime solutions to diophantine systems of high rank", "authors": [ "Akos Magyar", "Tatchai Titichetrakun" ], "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "Let $\\F$ be a family of $r$ integral forms of degree $k\\geq 2$ and $\\LL=(l_1,\\ldots,l_m)$ be a family of pairwise linearly independent linear forms in $n$ variables $\\x=(x_1,...,x_n)$. We study the number of solutions $\\x\\in[1,N]^n$ to the diophantine system $\\F(\\x)=\\vv$ under the restriction that $l_i(\\x)$ has a bounded number of prime factors for each $1\\leq i\\leq m$. We show that the system $\\F$ have the expected number of such \"almost prime\" solutions under similar conditions as was established for existence of integer solutions by Birch.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-07-19T22:24:30.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11D72", "11P32" ], "keywords": [ "diophantine system", "high rank", "prime solutions", "pairwise linearly independent linear forms", "integral forms" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }