The Unresolved abc Conjecture: New Proofs, Doubts, and a Fibonacci Link — E8 Intelligence Research
FINDING: The abc conjecture remains unverified; recent developments include Faltings' skepticism, the LANA project (a formal verification effort), and a new implication linking abc to infinitely many non-Fibonacci-Wieferich primes. | MATH: abc conjecture (Masser–Oesterlé–Szpiro): For any ε > 0, there exists C(ε) such that for coprime integers a + b = c, max(|a|,|b|,|c|) < C(ε) · rad(abc)^(1+ε). The arXiv result (1511.01210) proves: abc ⇒ infinitely many primes p where p² ∤ F_p (Fibonacci-Wieferich), with heuristic density ~ log(log x)/x. No new constants or ratios emerge; the conjecture's quality exponent q(a,b,c) = log(c)/log(rad(abc)) is central — the conjecture asserts limsup q ≤ 1+ε, with known examples approaching q ≈ 1.6299 (e.g., 2 + 3^10·109 = 23^5). | CONNECTION: The radical rad(abc) is a product of distinct primes — a lattice-free, multiplicative structure. No direct link to 0.382, 0.618, 0.786, 1.618, 2.618, or base-60 appears in these findings. However, the Wieferich condit Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
Authors
- Andrew Stewart Caldin
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22786703
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- preprint