The unbounded multiplicity conjecture for differences of tetrahedral numbers

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Let NN be a positive integer. A positive integer solution of the equation below is a pair (n,m)(n,m) of positive integers.

Unbounded multiplicity conjecture. For each NNN\in\mathbb{N} there is dNNd_N\in\mathbb{N} such that

(n3)(m3)=dN\binom{n}{3}-\binom{m}{3}=d_N

has at least NN positive integer solutions.

This conjecture arises from computational examples showing that fixed differences can have several representations as differences of binomial coefficients. It predicts that the number of such representations is unbounded, but no proof or disproof is given here.

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Primary source

Homero R. Gallegos-Ruiz, Nikolaos Katsipis, Szabolcs Tengely and Maciej Ulas, “On the Diophantine equation nk=ml+d”, arXiv:1904.11369 (2019).

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