Sister Beiter conjecture

In mathematics, the Sister Beiter conjecture is a conjecture about the size of coefficients of ternary cyclotomic polynomials (i.e. where the index is the product of three prime numbers). It is named after Marion Beiter, a Catholic nun who first proposed it in 1968.[1]

Background

For the maximal coefficient (in absolute value) of the cyclotomic polynomial is denoted by .

Let be three prime numbers. In this case the cyclotomic polynomial is called ternary. In 1895, A. S. Bang[2] proved that . This implies the existence of such that .

Statement

Sister Beiter conjectured[1] in 1968 that . This was later disproved, but a corrected Sister Beiter conjecture was put forward as .

Status

A preprint[3] from 2023 explains the history in detail and claims to prove this corrected conjecture. Explicitly it claims to prove

References

  1. Beiter, Marion (April 1968). "Magnitude of the Coefficients of the Cyclotomic Polynomial ". The American Mathematical Monthly. 75 (4): 370–372. doi:10.2307/2313416. JSTOR 2313416.
  2. Bang, A.S. (1895). "Om Ligningen ". Tidsskr. Math. 6: 6–12.
  3. Juran, Branko; Moree, Pieter; Riekert, Adrian; Schmitz, David; Völlmecke, Julian (2023). "A proof of the corrected Sister Beiter cyclotomic coefficient conjecture inspired by Zhao and Zhang". arXiv:2304.09250 [math.NT].
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