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Connes' Rigidity Theorem: Disproof of Open AI's Counterexample and Proof

13 pointsby gone35yesterday at 11:56 PM4 commentsview on HN

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defrosttoday at 2:19 AM

(dupe) OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]

  (https://philarchive.org/archive/NIEWTCv17)
  32 points|muglug|23 hours ago|37 comments
~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140869
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raver1975today at 2:30 AM

I'm going to believe that both results are true, while simultaneously being not true.

LegionMammal978today at 1:44 AM

> Corollary 14 (There is no such thing as a torsor). A torsor is defined as a “group without a distinguished identity element.” No such object exists. The proof is immediate from the axioms of group theory.

I somehow doubt that a standard concept you can look up [0] is vacuous due to simple word games.

[0] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/torsor