Finiteness conjecture for intersections of restricted-digit sets

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For an integer b≥3b\geq 3, let BbB_b be the set of positive integers whose base-bb expansion contains only the digits 00 and 11. Let a,ba,b be multiplicatively independent integers, meaning that log⁡a/log⁡b\log a/\log b is irrational. Restricted-digit intersection conjecture. If

log⁡2log⁡a+log⁡2log⁡b<1,\frac{\log 2}{\log a}+\frac{\log 2}{\log b}<1,

then

#(Ba∩Bb)<∞.\#(B_a\cap B_b)<\infty.

This is presented as a natural related problem and is attributed in the source to further discussion in BHY19. The finiteness of this intersection is not proved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Han Yu, “Additive properties of numbers with restricted digits”, arXiv:2004.05926 (2021).

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