Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis...
by solomatov on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:36PM
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How central is it in the discrete geometry? Could anyone with the knowledge in the field reply?
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Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis...
by energy123 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:38PM
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There's pages of comments from like 8 mathematicians in the attached pdf
Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis...
by sigmar on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:56PM
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The blog post links a pdf that OpenAI put together of nine mathematicians that commented on the proof. Each is quite brief and written in accessible terms (or more accessible terms, at least). https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29a...
Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis...
by horhay on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:58PM
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There may be years of investigation as to how far you can generalize these methods. As to how central it is, it's a longstanding problem that Erdos loves to cite for that branch of math.
The thing is is that it seems a lot of the effort through the years (which is unquantifiable in scale as to how much time was spent and how many people focused their entire worklives on it if any) has gone for trying to look for the proof, and the search for the disproof seems minimal.
Re:An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in dis...
by Lockal on Thursday May 21, 2026 @10:32AM
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No separate Wikipedia page -> just another Erdős problem.
There is no universally agreed-upon "central" conjecture (like "P vs. NP" in CS), but here are some pillars:
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_ending_problem
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger_conjecture_(combinato...