Boyd's conjecture on the closedness of Mahler measures

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For each non-zero polynomial P∈Z[z1,…,zn]P\in\mathbb{Z}[z_1,\ldots,z_n] with n≥1n\geq 1, let M(P)M(P) denote its Mahler measure, and define

L♯≔{M(P)∣P∈Z[z1,…,zn]∖{0}, n≥1}.L^\sharp\coloneqq\{M(P)\mid P\in\mathbb{Z}[z_1,\ldots,z_n]\setminus\{0\},\ n\geq 1\}.

Boyd's conjecture. The set L♯L^\sharp is closed with respect to the Euclidean topology.

This conjecture concerns the topological structure of the set of Mahler measures of non-zero integral multivariate polynomials. The source attributes it to Boyd and does not state whether it has been resolved.

References

Primary source

Marie-José Bertin and Mahya Mehrabdollahei, “An exact family of bivariate polynomials and Variants of Chinburg's Conjectures”, arXiv:2407.20634 (2025).

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