The conjecture that transcendental elements of the Mahler-value set are S-numbers

Let M\mathbf M be the set of values under consideration in the paper. For a complex number ξ\xi and a positive integer dd, define wd(ξ)w_d(\xi) as the supremum of the real numbers ww for which 0<P(ξ)<H(P)w0<|P(\xi)|<H(P)^{-w} holds for infinitely many polynomials PZ[X]P\in\mathbb Z[X] of degree at most dd, and set

w(ξ):=lim supdwd(ξ)d.w(\xi):=\limsup_{d\to\infty}\frac{w_d(\xi)}{d}.

A complex number is an S-number when 0<w(ξ)<0<w(\xi)<\infty. The S-number conjecture for M\mathbf M. Every transcendental element of M\mathbf M is an S-number. The conjecture is motivated by the expectation that transcendental elements of M\mathbf M should not be Liouville or U-numbers. The source states that the conjecture is open in general: the order-one case is known by Galochkin, while subsequent results only show that the number is either an S-number or a T-number.

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Boris Adamczewski and Colin Faverjon, “A Liouville-Type Inequality for Values of Mahler M-Functions”, arXiv:2604.08208 (2026).

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