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Zilber–Pink Conjecture, Duffin–Schaeffer Conjecture and 8 More in Number Theory

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10 results from OpenAI's public mathematics catalogue, one per chapter. Each chapter names the problem, shows the real objects, and states what OpenAI claims; none of it is peer reviewed yet.

Chapters:
0:00 Chowla Conjecture, Two-Point Case
0:21 Bogomolov–Pop Conjecture
0:42 Fontaine–Mazur Conjecture at the Prime 2
1:03 Duke's Theorem in Higher Degree
1:24 Zilber–Pink Conjecture
1:45 Margulis–Platonov Conjecture
2:07 Grothendieck's Section Conjecture
2:27 Squarefree Values of Quartics
2:48 Jacobsthal's Function
3:08 Duffin–Schaeffer Conjecture

Chowla Conjecture, Two-Point Case: Liouville's function gives each whole number +1 if it has an even number of prime factors and −1 if odd.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/007
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Ordinary-two-point…

Bogomolov–Pop Conjecture: The Bogomolov–Pop conjecture asks whether a function field of dimension at least two over an algebraically closed field can be rebuilt from a tiny shadow of itself: its multiplicative structure modulo a prime ℓ (Milnor…
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/009
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Reconstruction-of-…

Fontaine–Mazur Conjecture at the Prime 2: Modularity says the point counts of a curve modulo every prime are secretly the coefficients of a modular form; for elliptic curves this was proved between 1995 and 2001.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/010
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Unrestricted-pro-m…

Duke's Theorem in Higher Degree: Duke's theorem (1988) says the closed orbits coming from the ideal classes of a real quadratic field spread out evenly over the space of lattices as the discriminant grows, with no mass escaping into the cusp.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/015
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Equidistribution-o…

Zilber–Pink Conjecture: The Zilber–Pink conjecture says "unlikely intersections" are rare: a subvariety of an abelian variety meets the special subvarieties more than dimension counting allows only finitely often.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/016
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Abelian-Zilber…

Margulis–Platonov Conjecture: The Margulis–Platonov conjecture describes every normal subgroup of the rational points G(k) of an absolutely almost simple, simply connected algebraic group over a global field k: each noncentral one should come from…
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/018
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Margulis-Plato…

Grothendieck's Section Conjecture: Grothendieck's section conjecture (1983) predicts that the rational points of a curve of genus at least two are exactly the sections of its arithmetic étale fundamental group, up to conjugacy.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/019
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Etale-covers-with-…

Squarefree Values of Quartics: A number is squarefree when no prime square divides it.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/020
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Squarefree-values-…

Jacobsthal's Function: Pick k primes: how many consecutive whole numbers can all be divisible by at least one of them before a number slips through? Jacobsthal asked whether that longest run h(k) is always at most a constant times k², and the…
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/021
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/A-quadratic-bound-…

Duffin–Schaeffer Conjecture: Pick a number x and a shift γ, and ask how often qx lands within ψ(q) of γ modulo 1 as q = 1, 2, 3, … grows.
Explained: gradientdamage.com/p/022
Paper: github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-weak-inhomogen…

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Chapters

One problem per chapter. Each name links to the result's own page, each time to that moment on YouTube.

  1. Chowla Conjecture, Two-Point Case Number theory
  2. Bogomolov–Pop Conjecture Number theory
  3. Fontaine–Mazur Conjecture at the Prime 2 Number theory
  4. Duke's Theorem in Higher Degree Number theory
  5. Zilber–Pink Conjecture Number theory
  6. Margulis–Platonov Conjecture Number theory
  7. Grothendieck's Section Conjecture Number theory
  8. Squarefree Values of Quartics Number theory
  9. Jacobsthal's Function Number theory
  10. Duffin–Schaeffer Conjecture Number theory

Chapter 1: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 007

Ordinary two-point correlations and the corrected Elliott conjecture

Proves the ordinary two-point Chowla conjecture, with a bound O(X/(log X)c) for Liouville correlation sums along fixed nonproportional affine forms, where c > 0 is absolute. More generally, proves the binary corrected Elliott conjecture for complex multiplicative functions bounded by one when one factor is uniformly nonpretentious against each fixed Dirichlet character times nit for |t| ≤ X. (Lean)

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 2: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 009·from 0:21

Function-field reconstruction from Milnor K-theory and Galois data

Reconstructs function fields of transcendence degree at least two over algebraically closed constants from KM1/ℓ, KM2/ℓ, and their product. These data recover the perfect closure and constants when ℓ differs from the characteristic, and the original field and its named base in equal characteristic. Also proves Bogomolov–Pop reconstruction from abelian-by-central pro-ℓ Galois data away from the characteristic. (Lean)

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 3: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 010·from 0:42

Unrestricted pro-modularity at the prime two

Every continuous odd absolutely irreducible two-dimensional 2-adic representation of Gℚ unramified outside finitely many primes occurs in a completed Hecke algebra at some odd tame level. Also proves classical modularity up to Tate twist for irreducible odd representations with these finiteness conditions that are de Rham at 2 with distinct Hodge–Tate weights, resolving the dyadic Fontaine–Mazur case without residual restrictions.

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 4: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 015·from 1:03

Torus-packet equidistribution in prime, quartic, and sextic degrees

Proves Haar equidistribution without escape of mass for complete volume-weighted torus packets from totally real fields: arbitrary lattices and prescribed local types in fixed prime degree at least five, arbitrary-order Picard packets in primitive quartic fields, and maximal-order ideal-class packets in primitive sextic fields. Here primitive means having no proper intermediate field; the relevant order or field discriminant tends to infinity. (Lean)

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 5: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 016·from 1:24

Zilber–Pink in abelian varieties and the Siegel threefold

Proves the abelian Zilber–Pink conjecture over ℚ̅: every irreducible subvariety has finitely many maximal atypical subvarieties relative to its smallest containing torsion coset. It also proves the full curve case in the Siegel threefold 𝒜2 for Hodge-generic curves defined over ℚ̅, without boundary or reduction assumptions.

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 6: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 018·from 1:45

The Margulis–Platonov conjecture over global fields

Proves the Margulis–Platonov conjecture over every global field, including function fields of characteristic two. For an absolutely almost simple simply connected algebraic group G over k, every noncentral abstract normal subgroup of G(k) is the inverse image of an open normal subgroup in the finite product of its anisotropic nonarchimedean local groups.

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 7: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 019·from 2:07

The local p-adic section conjecture and global consequences

Proves that rational points on every smooth proper geometrically connected curve of genus at least two over a finite extension of ℚp correspond bijectively to conjugacy classes of sections of its full arithmetic étale fundamental group. It also proves Grothendieck's section conjecture over ℚ for the modular curves X0(N) and X1(N) of genus at least two.

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 8: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 020·from 2:27

Squarefree quartics and power-free polynomial values

Proves the squarefree-values conjecture for irreducible integer quartics with no fixed prime-square divisor: squarefree values on positive integers have the predicted positive Euler-product density. More generally, establishes the (d-2)-power-free density for irreducible integer polynomials of degrees four through eight under the necessary local condition; together with Browning's higher-degree theorem, this covers every d ≥ 4. (Lean)

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 9: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 021·from 2:48

A quadratic bound for Jacobsthal’s function

Answers Jacobsthal's quadratic-bound question: every interval of Ck2 consecutive integers contains an integer coprime to any prescribed positive integer with at most k distinct prime divisors, for an absolute constant C. The bound is uniform over prime sets and interval positions and removes the classical logarithmic loss. (Lean)

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Chapter 10: about the problem

Number theory·OpenAI Math·Result 022·from 3:08

The weak inhomogeneous Duffin–Schaeffer conjecture

Proves that for every real shift γ and finite-valued ψ:ℕ → [0,∞), divergence of ∑qϕ(q)ψ(q)/q implies ‖qx-γ‖ < ψ(q) for infinitely many q, for almost every x. Here ϕ is Euler's totient and the norm is distance to the nearest integer. Numerators are unrestricted; no monotonicity or Diophantine condition on γ is needed.

OpenAI, in its public catalogue of maths results · preprint, not peer reviewed

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Topics

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