The conjecture that both solutions are transcendental for rational tower bases

Let QQ(0,ee]Q\in\mathbb{Q}\cap\left(0,e^{-e}\right] with Q1/16Q\neq 1/16, and let ho(Q)h_o(Q) and he(Q)h_e(Q) denote the two solutions identified in the preceding proposition, with ho(Q)<he(Q)h_o(Q)<h_e(Q), of the relevant iterated-exponential equation. The proposition establishes that both values are irrational and that at least one is transcendental. Both-solutions transcendence conjecture. Both ho(Q)h_o(Q) and he(Q)h_e(Q) are transcendental. This strengthens the second part of the preceding proposition, which proves irrationality of both values and transcendence of at least one; the stronger assertion is presented as a prediction.

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Jonathan Sondow and Diego Marques, “Algebraic and transcendental solutions of some exponential equations”, arXiv:1108.6096 (2011).

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