The abc conjecture implies infinitely many non-Wieferich places for fixed bases in number fields
Abstract
Silverman showed that, assuming the conjecture, there are non-Wieferich primes base less than \cite{silverman}, for all non-zero . This inspired Graves and Murty \cite{Graves}, Chen and Ding \cite{Chen1} \cite{Chen2}, and then Ding \cite{Ding} to find growth results, assuming the conjecture, for non-Wieferich primes base , where for integers . In light of Murty, Srinivas, and Subramani's recent work on `the Wieferich primes conjecture' and Euclidean algorithms in number fields \cite{murty}, number theorists need results on non-Wieferich places in number fields. We prove analogues of the results of Graves \& Murty and Ding, and show Ding's result holds for all bases in all imaginary quadratic fields' rings of integers, with explicitly listed exceptions. Along the way, we generalize useful results on rational integers to algebraic integers.
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@article{arxiv.2503.19144,
title = {The abc conjecture implies infinitely many non-Wieferich places for fixed bases in number fields},
author = {Hester Graves and Benjamin Weiss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19144},
year = {2025}
}
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15 pages