Waring's problem with restricted digits

Abstract

Let $k \geq 2$ and $b \geq 3$ be integers, and suppose that $d_1, d_2 \in \{0,1,\dots, b - 1\}$ are distinct and coprime. Let $\mathcal{S}$ be the set of non-negative integers, all of whose digits in base $b$ are either $d_1$ or $d_2$. Then every sufficiently large integer is a sum of at most $b^{160 k^2}$ numbers of the form $x^k$, $x \in \mathcal{S}$.