Mathematician posts arXiv paper with proofs almost entirely by AI
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-19
An amateur mathematician returned to arXiv after three years with a paper described as joint work with AI (Fable and GPT-5.6): the proofs were almost all provided by AI, and the paper itself was AI-written. The work proposes, in module categories over algebras, a conjecture that the number of quotient-closed subcategories equals the number of submodule-closed ones, proving several cases.
Harvard economist Scott Kominers, resharing it, noted the author's closing remark about AI enabling math at a scale otherwise hard given daily life—and that generative AI has similarly let him revisit number theory questions he'd puzzled over for years: "There are a lot of latent theoretical mathematicians out there."
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