English

Bounds on the exceptional set in the $abc$ conjecture

Number Theory 2026-05-12 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study solutions to the equation a+b=ca+b=c, where a,b,ca,b,c form a triple of coprime natural numbers. The abcabc conjecture asserts that, for any ϵ>0\epsilon>0, such triples satisfy rad(abc)c1ϵ\mathrm{rad}(abc) \ge c^{1-\epsilon} with finitely many exceptions. In this article we obtain a power-saving bound on the size of the exceptional set of triples. The proof is based on a combination of upper bounds for the density of integer points on certain high-dimensional varieties, coming from the geometry of numbers and from Fourier analysis.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2410.12234,
  title  = {Bounds on the exceptional set in the $abc$ conjecture},
  author = {Christian Bernert and Tim Browning and Jared Duker Lichtman and Joni Teräväinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.12234},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages; Python linear programming code included in the appendix

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