Primes of the form $ax+by$ in certain intervals with small solutions

Abstract

Let $1 0.005\cdot \frac{1}{\ell+1}\frac{g_{\ell,a,b}}{\log g_{\ell,a,b}}. \end{equation*} Let $\pi_{\ell,a,b}^{*}$ be the number of primes $p\leq g_{\ell,a,b}$ having at most $\ell$ solutions for (1). For an integer $a\ge 3$ and a large sufficiently integer $b$ with $\gcd(a,b)=1$, we also prove that $$ \pi^{*}_{\ell,a,b}>\frac{(2\ell+1)a}{2(\ell a+a-1)}\frac{g_{\ell,a,b}}{\log g_{\ell,a,b}}. $$ Moreover, if $\ell \frac{\ell+0.02}{\ell+1}\frac{g_{\ell,a,b}}{\log g_{\ell,a,b}}. \end{equation*} These results generalize the previous ones of Chen and Zhu (2025), who established the results for the case $\ell=0$.