On small fractional parts of polynomial-like functions

Abstract: In a paper, Madritsch and Tichy established Diophantine inequalities for the fractional parts of polynomial-like functions. In particular, for $f(x)=x^k+x^c$ where $k$ is a positive integer and $c>1$ is a non-integer, and any fixed $\xi\in [0,1]$ they obtained [\min_{2\leq p\leq X} \Vert \xi \lfloor f(p)\rfloor \Vert\ll_{k,c,\epsilon} X^{-\rho_1(c,k)+\epsilon}] for $\rho_1(c,k)>0$ explicitly given. In the present note, we improve upon their results in the case $c>k$ and $c>4$.