Sister Beiter conjecture

Template:Short description In mathematics, the Sister Beiter conjecture is a conjecture about the size of coefficients of ternary cyclotomic polynomials (i.e. where the index is the product of three prime numbers). It is named after Marion Beiter, a Catholic nun who first proposed it in 1968.Template:R

Background

For $n\in {\mathbb{N}}_{>0}$ the maximal coefficient (in absolute value) of the cyclotomic polynomial ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_n(x)$ is denoted by $A(n)$.

Let $3\le p\le q\le r$ be three prime numbers. In this case the cyclotomic polynomial ${\mathrm{\Phi }}_{pqr}(x)$ is called ternary. In 1895, A. S. BangTemplate:R proved that $A(pqr)\le p-1$. This implies the existence of $M(p):=\max {\mathrm{\backslash limits}}_{p\le q\le r\text{ prime}}A(pqr)$ such that $1\le M(p)\le p-1$.

Statement

Sister Beiter conjecturedTemplate:R in 1968 that $M(p)\le \frac{p+1}{2}$. This was later disproved, but a corrected Sister Beiter conjecture was put forward as $M(p)\le \frac{2}{3}p$.

Status

A preprintTemplate:R from 2023 explains the history in detail and claims to prove this corrected conjecture. Explicitly it claims to prove $$M(p)\le \frac{2}{3}p\text{ and }\lim {\mathrm{\backslash limits}}_{p\to \mathrm{\infty }}\frac{M(p)}{p}=\frac{2}{3}.$$