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The abc conjecture implies infinitely many non-Wieferich places for fixed bases in number fields

Number Theory 2025-03-26 v1

Abstract

Silverman showed that, assuming the abcabc conjecture, there are logx\gg \log x non-Wieferich primes base aa less than xx \cite{silverman}, for all non-zero aa. 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 abcabc conjecture, for non-Wieferich primes pp base aa, where p1(modk)p \equiv 1 \pmod{k} for integers k2k \geq 2. 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 aa in all imaginary quadratic fields' rings of integers, with 3131 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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