The maximal-order sporadic unit-equation conjecture

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Let KaK_a be the simplest cubic field considered in the paper, let OKa\mathcal{O}_{K_a} be its maximal order, and let u1,u2∈OKa∗u_1,u_2\in\mathcal{O}_{K_a}^* and n∈Zn\in\mathbb{Z} satisfy the unit equation

u1+u2=n.u_1+u_2=n.

Two solutions are called non-equivalent according to the equivalence relation used for the unit equation, and a solution is sporadic when it is not one of the parametrized non-sporadic solutions. The maximal-order unit-equation conjecture. The unit equation has exactly 6666 sporadic solutions that are pairwise non-equivalent. The conjecture extends the result from the order Z[ρ]\mathbb{Z}[\rho] to units of the maximal order; computations in the range −1≤a≤400-1\leq a\leq 400 and 1≤n≤4001\leq n\leq 400 found 6666 such solutions, all satisfying a≤66a\leq 66 and ∣n∣≤22|n|\leq 22, but the unrestricted claim remains open.

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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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