Monotonicity conjecture for the three-variable violation sets

At least 30 years old · documented by

Let In3\mathcal{I}_n^3 denote the set of triples that fail the relevant inequality for exponent nn. For every n∈Nn\in\mathbf{N}, the sets satisfy

In3⊆In+13.\mathcal{I}_n^3\subseteq\mathcal{I}_{n+1}^3.

Monotonicity conjecture. For any n∈Nn\in\mathbf{N}, we have

In3⊆In+13.\mathcal{I}_n^3\subseteq\mathcal{I}_{n+1}^3.

Equivalently, if a triple (x,y,z)(x,y,z) fails to satisfy the inequality for some nn, then it also fails for every n′>nn'>n. The conjecture is motivated by the proofs of the cited results and supporting numerical evidence; no resolution is given in the source.

References

Primary source

Chanatip Sujsuntinukul and Christophe Chesneau, “Variants of the Damascus inequality”, arXiv:2601.00916 (2026).

Additional references

27 papers in this index state this conjecture (1995–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2512.09887, arXiv:2505.06104, arXiv:2411.08465, arXiv:2309.03772, arXiv:2210.13922, arXiv:2207.04831, arXiv:2203.13484, arXiv:2107.07680, arXiv:2012.05666, arXiv:2008.09226, arXiv:2006.15897, arXiv:2003.00035, and 14 more.

Progress summary

Never refreshed

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.