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Banach’s simple Lebesgue-spectrum problem
One of the 372 results in OpenAI's public mathematics catalogue, filed under dynamical systems and ergodic theory: 1 preprint, the latest dated 23 September 2026. This page quotes OpenAI's own summary of the claim, links the paper and abstract, and embeds the animation.
In one line: OpenAI reports an answer to Banach’s simple Lebesgue-spectrum problem (dynamical systems and ergodic theory) in a preprint dated 23 September 2026. It has not been peer reviewed. The channel's animation, Every OpenAI Math Result, Part 2 of 4: PCP for PPAD, Birkhoff Conjecture and 82 More, is on YouTube.
Chapter 8 of 84 in Every OpenAI Math Result, Part 2 of 4: PCP for PPAD, Birkhoff Conjecture and 82 More · starts at 2:24 · watch from there on YouTube →
What OpenAI claims
Resolves the probability-preserving form of Banach's simple Lebesgue-spectrum problem within smooth dynamics. A smooth volume-preserving diffeomorphism of the standard-volume three-torus has simple Lebesgue spectrum on its entire complex mean-zero L2 space: the bilateral iterates of one real observable form an orthonormal basis of that space. (Lean)
Paper
A smooth three-torus diffeomorphism with simple Lebesgue spectrum
OpenAI's abstract We solve the probability-preserving form of Banach's simple Lebesgue-spectrum problem in smooth dynamics. We construct a C∞ diffeomorphism of the three-torus that preserves standard volume and whose Koopman operator has simple Lebesgue spectrum on the entire mean-zero L2 space.
Status
Preprint. The paper has not been independently reviewed. Treat the result as OpenAI's claim until other mathematicians have checked it. If a video exists, it illustrates the statement; it is not the proof.
Quick answers
- Is it proven?
- Not independently yet. OpenAI posted a preprint on 23 September 2026; it has not been peer reviewed, so treat the result as OpenAI's claim until other mathematicians have checked it.
- What exactly does OpenAI claim?
- Resolves the probability-preserving form of Banach's simple Lebesgue-spectrum problem within smooth dynamics. A smooth volume-preserving diffeomorphism of the standard-volume three-torus has simple Lebesgue spectrum on its entire complex mean-zero L2 space: the bilateral iterates of one real observable form an orthonormal basis of that space. (Lean)
- Where is the proof?
- In the paper, A smooth three-torus diffeomorphism with simple Lebesgue spectrum (PDF).
- Is there a video?
- Yes, on YouTube (29:10, chapter 8).
Also in
The video
Every OpenAI Math Result, Part 2 of 4: PCP for PPAD, Birkhoff Conjecture and 82 More · Compilation · 29:10 · chapter 8 from 2:24 · description, sources and chapters →
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