Bounds on the exceptional set in the $abc$ conjecture
Number Theory
2026-05-12 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
We study solutions to the equation , where form a triple of coprime natural numbers. The conjecture asserts that, for any , such triples satisfy 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