Lagarias–Soundararajan's strong XYZ conjecture for ABC solutions

Let X\frak X be the set of primitive nonzero integer solutions (A,B,C)(A,B,C) to A+B+C=0A+B+C=0, and define

H(A,B,C)=max{A,B,C},S(A,B,C)=P+(ABC),H(A,B,C)=\max\{|A|,|B|,|C|\},\qquad S(A,B,C)=P^+(ABC),

where P+(n)P^+(n) is the largest prime divisor of nn.

XYZ conjecture (strong form). For every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, both of the following hold:

(a) only finitely many (A,B,C)X(A,B,C)\in\frak X satisfy

logH(A,B,C)>S(A,B,C)2/3+ϵ;\log H(A,B,C)>S(A,B,C)^{2/3+\epsilon};

(b) infinitely many (A,B,C)X(A,B,C)\in\frak X satisfy

logH(A,B,C)>S(A,B,C)2/3ϵ.\log H(A,B,C)>S(A,B,C)^{2/3-\epsilon}.

This conjecture relates the height of an ABC solution to the largest prime factor of its product. The text says that the ABC conjecture implies a weaker version of part (a), with exponent 1+ϵ1+\epsilon, while the stated exponent 2/3+ϵ2/3+\epsilon is not known to follow from ABC.

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Primary source

James E. Weigandt, “Insulators of ABC Solutions”, arXiv:1401.6439 (2014).

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