On the distribution of $αp^2$ modulo one in the intersection of two Piatetski--Shapiro sets

Abstract

Let $\lfloor t\rfloor$ denote the integer part of $t\in\mathbb{R}$ and $\|x\|$ the distance from $x$ to the nearest integer. Suppose that $1/2<γ_2<γ_1<1$ are two fixed constants. In this paper, it is proved that, whenever $α$ is an irrational number and $β$ is any real number, there exist infinitely many prime numbers $p$ in the intersection of two Piatetski--Shapiro sets, i.e., $p=\lfloor n_1^{1/γ_1}\rfloor=\lfloor n_2^{1/γ_2}\rfloor$, such that \begin{equation*} \|αp^2+β\|<p^{-\frac{14(γ_1+γ_2)-27}{43}+\varepsilon}, \end{equation*} provided that $27/14<γ_1+γ_2<2$. This result constitutes an generalization upon the previous result of Dimitrov [4].