Mathematicians reviewing OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof find the Lean formalization sound
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-11
Amid reports claiming OpenAI's LLM "cheated" on its forced Navier-Stokes proof, mathematicians who examined the work say the proof is actually correct.
- The Lean formalization compiles, and ongoing scrutiny has found no errors or improper manipulation of the formal system as alleged in coverage.
- The natural-language proof follows broadly the same strategy, but key lemmas are stated differently: weaker in Lean, stronger in prose, where some statements are incorrect or not properly proved.
- These are apparently fixable errors of the kind common in lengthy PDE papers — not evidence of cheating.
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