Finiteness conjecture for intersections of restricted-digit sets

For an integer b3b\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 loga/logb\log a/\log b is irrational. Restricted-digit intersection conjecture. If

log2loga+log2logb<1,\frac{\log 2}{\log a}+\frac{\log 2}{\log b}<1,

then

#(BaBb)<.\#(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.

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Primary source

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

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