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Sum-product, unit distances, and number fields

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-01 Cached

Thomas Bloom provides an expository blog post on recent counterexamples to the Erdős unit distance conjecture and sum-product conjecture over the reals, including an OpenAI-assisted disproof of the unit distance conjecture and a collaborative disproof of the sum-product conjecture, sketching the constructions and intuition behind them.

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Discovering a Zeta Map Algorithm on Dyck Paths via Mechanistic Interpretability

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-06-01 Cached

This paper trains a small one-layer encoder-decoder transformer on the zeta map bijection for Dyck paths and uses mechanistic interpretability to extract a new explicit algorithm called the scaffolding map, demonstrating an AI-assisted approach to mathematical discovery.

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