Unbounded maximal elements in the Frobenius problem over real number fields

Let KK be a real number field and let β1,,βdOK+\beta_1,\dots,\beta_d\in\mathfrak{O}_K^+ be a basis for OK\mathfrak{O}_K as a Z\mathbb{Z}-module. For positive integers m1m\geqslant 1, write M(β1,,βd,α)\mathfrak{M}(\beta_1,\dots,\beta_d,\alpha) for the set of maximal elements associated with these generators.

Unboundedness conjecture. For every positive integer m1m\geqslant 1, there exists some αOK+\alpha\in\mathfrak{O}_K^+ such that

#M(β1,,βd,α)m.\#\mathfrak{M}(\beta_1,\dots,\beta_d,\alpha)\geqslant m.

The preceding quadratic-extension result shows that the cardinality of this set can be made arbitrarily large in that case. The conjecture asserts that the same phenomenon holds for arbitrary real number fields.

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Alex Feiner and Zion Hefty, “The Frobenius problem over real number fields”, arXiv:2310.12530 (2023).

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