Aigner's ordering conjectures for Markov numbers
Aigner's ordering conjectures for Markov numbers
For coprime positive integers with , let denote the Markov number indexed by the rational number .
Aigner's conjectures. The following ordering properties should hold:
- Fixed Numerator: If and , then
- Fixed Denominator: If and , then
- Fixed Sum: If and , then
These conjectures concern the total ordering of Markov numbers induced by their rational indexing. The paper states that the corresponding conjectures for -Markov numbers are established, while the ordinary Markov-number formulation is attributed to Aigner and is described as weaker than Frobenius' unicity conjecture.
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Primary source
Esther Banaian, “Orderings of k-Markov Numbers”, arXiv:2512.04026 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.13010.
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