Claims / C-RGC3M4DB11
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An AI lab's machine-checked Yang-Mills construction passed independent checks, but it proves no mass gap and reviewers don't yet fully understand it.
The claim
An independent working group judged on 10 November 2026 that OpenAI's machine-checked (Lean) proof constructs a four-dimensional quantum Yang-Mills theory satisfying the standard axioms as a limit of lattice gauge theory, a major result in mathematical physics, but not the Millennium Prize problem: it proves no mass gap and no uniqueness of the infinite-volume limit. The check rested mainly on formal verification (clean rebuild, axiom audit, comparison against a separately fixed statement); the reviewers used OpenAI's own model to digest the code and say they do not yet fully understand the proof.
Evidence 6 passages
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In our judgment the submission proves that a relativistic quantum field theory satisfying the Wightman axioms can be constructed as a scaling limit of four-dimensional Wilson lattice gauge theory for any simple compact gauge group.
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It does not prove that the infinite-volume limit is unique or that there is a mass gap.
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A clean rebuild, axiom audit, and Comparator check passed.
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We used OpenAI’s Astra to assist with the digestion of the supplied Lean code.
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We do not claim to fully understand the proof yet.
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The construction provides no evidence for or against a mass gap in the theory.
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