Taylor-cancellation conjecture for sums of d-th roots

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Let d2d\geq 2 and k1k\geq 1. Let AiA_i be positive integers, let ui,viu_i,v_i be integers, let λ0\lambda\ne 0 be a real constant, and let L(M)L(M) be an integer-valued linear polynomial in MM. Taylor-cancellation conjecture. There exist such AiA_i, uiu_i, viv_i, and λ\lambda for which, for infinitely many integers MM,

i=1kAi((M+ui)d+vi)1/d=L(M)+λM(dk1)+Od,k(Mdk).\sum_{i=1}^k A_i\left((M+u_i)^d+v_i\right)^{1/d}=L(M)+\lambda M^{-(dk-1)}+O_{d,k}(M^{-dk}).

Equivalently, after absorbing the weights AiA_i into the radicands, one obtains gk,d(N)d,kN(k1/d)g_{k,d}(N)\ll_{d,k}N^{-(k-1/d)} for all sufficiently large NN. This is presented as a natural Taylor-cancellation form of the integer-target conjecture; the supplied text gives no resolution, while the preceding theorem reaches only the weaker exponent k/dεk/d-\varepsilon.

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Primary source

Samuel Korsky, “Inhomogeneous Approximation by Sums of Roots”, arXiv:2605.27233 (2026).

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