Sister Beiter conjecture

Conjecture on the coefficients of cyclotomic polynomials From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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