The height-realisation conjecture for ternary cyclotomic polynomials

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For an odd prime pp, define

M(p)maxq,rA(pqr).M(p)\coloneqq\max_{q,r} A(pqr).

Height-realisation conjecture. For every odd prime pp and every integer hh with 1hM(p)1\le h\le M(p), there exist primes qq and rr such that

A(pqr)=h.A(pqr)=h.

The conjecture asserts that, for each fixed odd prime pp, every height up to the maximum height M(p)M(p) is attained by a ternary cyclotomic polynomial of the form Φpqr\Phi_{pqr}. The preceding results show that every positive integer occurs as the height of some Φpqr\Phi_{pqr}, but they do not establish this stronger fixed-pp realisation statement.

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Primary source

Gennady Bachman, Christopher Bao and Shenlone Wu, “A Note on Heights of Cyclotomic Polynomials”, arXiv:2309.03422 (2025).

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