On the Representations of a Number as the Sum of Three Cubes and a Fourth or Fifth Power

Let R _k (n) denote the number of representations of a natural number n as the sum of three cubes and a kth power. In this paper, we show that R ₃ (n) n ^5/9+, and that R ₄ (n) n ^47/90+, where > 0 is arbitrary. This extends work of Hooley concerning sums of four cubes, to the case of sums of mixed powers. To achieve these bounds, we use a variant of the Selberg sieve method introduced by Hooley to study sums of two kth powers, and we also use various exponential sum estimates.