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kmaitreysyesterday at 4:29 AM5 repliesview on HN

Maybe not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobian_conjectu...


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Tiberiumyesterday at 4:31 AM

I think the editor themselves misunderstood the conjecture.

UPD: The edit got reverted and there's this on the talk page now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jacobian_conjecture#c-DaR...

UPD2: There are edit wars happening now: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobian_conjectu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jacobian_conjecture#c-Sea...

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tacomonstrousyesterday at 5:28 AM

This is nonsensical: Properness of the map is equivalent to its being an isomorphism (quick proof: Jacobian invertible implies that the map is etale, and properness would imply that it is finite etale, but affine space doesn't admit non-trivial finite etale covers), so the lack of properness is just another way of verifying that this is indeed a counterexample.

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randompartytimeyesterday at 4:40 AM

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slopinthebagyesterday at 4:41 AM

The author has a PhD in math from Cambridge. If it turns out to be a false claim it is an interesting case study on AI's sycophancy causing even experts to drop their guard and make mistakes.

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rvzyesterday at 4:34 AM

I'd rather wait for independent seasoned mathematicians to verify such claims first before someone at said AI lab posting a claim about solving a proof online.

Let this be a lesson to those who fell for such AI psychosis and to not believe everything you see on the internet as real.

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