Three-variable squared-argument undecidability conjecture for exponential Diophantine equations
Three-variable squared-argument undecidability conjecture for exponential Diophantine equations
An exponential Diophantine equation over is an equation built using variables, rational constants, arithmetic operations, and exponentiation with nonnegative base and exponent. Three-variable undecidability conjecture. There is no algorithm that, given any exponential Diophantine equation
can decide whether
for some .
The conjecture seeks to reduce the number of unknowns in the corresponding undecidability result from ten to three; the source notes that the ten-variable bound is not believed to be optimal, but that improving it appears challenging.
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Primary source
Zhi-Wei Sun, “On exponential diophantine equations over Q with few unknowns”, arXiv:2112.00620 (2021).
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