The sporadic unit-equation conjecture for simplest cubic orders

Let KaK_a be the simplest cubic field considered in the paper, let ρ\rho generate the order Z[ρ]\mathbb{Z}[\rho], and let u1,u2Z[ρ]u_1,u_2\in\mathbb{Z}[\rho]^* and nZn\in\mathbb{Z}. Two solutions are called non-equivalent according to the equivalence relation defined for the unit equation in the paper. The parameter aa is the parameter defining KaK_a. The sporadic unit-equation conjecture. The Diophantine equation

u1+u2=nu_1+u_2=n

has exactly 2424 sporadic solutions that are pairwise non-equivalent. Moreover, every sporadic solution (u1,u2,n)(u_1,u_2,n) satisfies a2a\leq 2 and n22|n|\leq 22. This strengthens the theorem proved under the additional assumption nmax{a1/3,1}|n|\leq\max\{|a|^{1/3},1\}; the computational evidence reported in the paper suggests that no further sporadic solutions occur for a3a\geq 3, but the unrestricted assertion remains conjectural.

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Ingrid Vukusic and Volker Ziegler, “On a family of unit equations over simplest cubic fields”, arXiv:2104.12514 (2021).

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