The two-base automaticity conjecture
Let and be two multiplicatively independent natural numbers, and let automatic in base mean that the real number's expansion in base can be generated by a finite automaton. The two-base automaticity conjecture. A real number cannot be automatic in both bases and , unless it is rational. This is a computational analogue of Furstenberg's conjecture: automaticity in a base implies zero entropy in that base. The claim remains challenging; the source notes that no real number had then been proved to be automatic in one base and not automatic in another.
References
Primary source
Boris Adamczewski and Colin Faverjon, “Mahler's method in several variables and finite automata”, arXiv:2012.08283 (2020).
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