Ed Witten cites Claude Opus 5.5 as assistant in serious math paper
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-06
Physicist Ed Witten explicitly credits Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 in a paper on gauge theories with chiral fermions. A highlighted passage states Opus 5.5 suggested a likely variant yielding a smooth interpolation whose link holonomies exactly match the lattice link variables, with the interpolated gauge field in each hypercube depending only on boundary links. Opus 5.5 also described an alternative inductive step using linear interpolation instead of solving a Dirichlet problem. A rare formal acknowledgment of an LLM's contribution in a serious mathematics paper, widely shared as a landmark endorsement of LLM capability.
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