The residue-class formulation of the divisor-set conjecture

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Let nn be a positive integer, and let ZO~(nn1/3)\mathbb{Z}^{\widetilde{O}(n^{n^{1/3}})} denote the integers in the indicated size range. The residue-class formulation. There exists a set SZO~(nn1/3)S\subseteq\mathbb{Z}^{\widetilde{O}(n^{n^{1/3}})} with k=S=O~(n1/3)k=|S|=\widetilde{O}(n^{1/3}), and a set TT with T<k|T|<k, such that for every j{1,,n}j\in\{1,\ldots,n\} and every sSs\in S, the residue smodjs\bmod j belongs to TT.

This is another general formulation of the desired number-theoretic structure. The paper states that the more general conjectures are not presently known to yield algorithms, and gives no evidence of resolution.

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Chris Umans and Siki Wang, “A number-theoretic conjecture implying faster algorithms for polynomial factorization and integer factorization”, arXiv:2511.10851 (2025).

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