Loxton and Van der Poorten's conjecture for Mahler functions

Let kk and ll be multiplicatively independent positive integers. Let FK[[x]]F\in K[[x]] be a power series over a number field KK that is both kk-Mahler and ll-Mahler. Loxton and Van der Poorten's conjecture. Then FF is rational. This is a Mahler-function analogue of Cobham's theorem, asserting that simultaneous multiplicative independence forces a power series to be rational. The conjecture was resolved in 2013 by Bell and Adamczewski, who proved the more general theorem over any field of characteristic 00.

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Primary source

Andean E. Medjedovic, “Real Mahler Series”, arXiv:2101.03475 (2021).

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3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.09266, arXiv:1303.2019.

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