Sums of two squares and a power
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We extend results of Jagy and Kaplansky and the present authors and show that for all $k\geq 3$ there are infinitely many positive integers $n$, which cannot be written as $x^2+y^2+z^k=n$ for positive integers $x,y,z$, where for $k\not\equiv 0 \bmod 4$ a congruence condition is imposed on $z$. These examples are of interest as there is no congruence obstruction itself for the representation of these $n$. This way we provide a new family of counterexamples to the Hasse principle or strong approximation.
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