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Publications and source records attributed to Zhivko Petrov.
Let $c > 1$ and $0 < γ< 1$ be real, with $c \notin \mathbb N$. We study the solubility of the Diophantine inequality \[ \left| p_1^c + p_2^c + \dots + p_s^c - N \right| < \varepsilon \] in Piatetski-Shapiro primes $p_1, p_2, \dots, p_s$ of index $γ$---that is, primes of the form $p = \lfloor m^{1/γ} \rfloor$ for some $m \in \mathbb N$.
We consider the equation $[p_{1}^{c}] + [p_{2}^{c}] + [p_{3}^{c}] = N$, where $N$ is a sufficiently large integer, and prove that if $1 < c < \frac{17}{16}$, then it has a solution in prime numbers $p_{1}$, $p_{2}$, $p_{3}$ such that each of the numbers $p_{1} + 2$, $p_{2} + 2$, $p_{3} + 2$ has at most $\left [ \frac{95}{17 - 16c} \right ]$ prime factors, counted with the multiplicity.
In this paper we consider the equation $[p^{c}] + [m^{c}] = N$, where $N$ is a sufficiently large integer, and prove that if $1 < c < \frac{29}{28}$, then it has a solution in a prime $p$ and an almost prime $m$ with at most $\left[ \frac{52}{29 - 28 c}\right] + 1 $ prime factors.