Beiter's conjecture on the height of ternary cyclotomic polynomials

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For odd primes p<q<rp<q<r, let A(n)A(n) denote the height of the cyclotomic polynomial 4Φn(X)4\Phi_n(X). Beiter's conjecture.

A(pqr)≤12(p+1)A(pqr) \leq \tfrac1{2}(p+1)

for all odd primes p<q<rp<q<r. The conjecture was disproved by Leher's example A(17⋅29⋅41)=10>(17+1)/2A(17\cdot29\cdot41)=10>(17+1)/2; subsequent work gives substantially different bounds for the maximal ternary height.

References

Primary source

Carlo Sanna, “A Survey on Coefficients of Cyclotomic Polynomials”, arXiv:2111.04034 (2021).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0910.2770, arXiv:0910.1982, arXiv:0812.4024, arXiv:0712.2365.

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