On a conjecture of Esser, Totaro, and Wang
Note · May 2026 · not posted to arXiv
This note disproves a conjecture of Esser and Totaro on the relative primeness of two explicitly constructible integers. As a consequence, the large-index conjecture of Esser, Totaro, and Wang fails in dimension 159: the prime 53 divides both E159 and m′159. The note will not be posted to arXiv.