Problem detail · source-aware

Amdeberhan-Medina-Moll Arctangent Sum Conjecture

partialconfidence 70%

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Precise statement

Let $x_n = \tan\left(\sum_{k=1}^{n} \arctan k\right)$. Amdeberhan, Medina and Moll conjectured that $x_n \notin \mathbb{Z}$ for every $n \ge 5$. Any integer value $x_n = m$ must satisfy $|m| \ge e^{(1/2+o(1)) n \log n}$, which forces $\#\{1 \le n \le N : x_n \in \mathbb{Z}\} = O(\log N)$. The conjecture therefore holds for a density-one set of $n$, improving on the previously known density of $120/817 \approx 0.147$.

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What AI did

AxiomProver

The system was given only a natural-language statement of the definitions and the three target results, plus an instruction to formalize and prove them with no sorry. From that input AxiomProver autonomously produced both the Lean formalization of the problem and a complete Lean proof. The human author then wrote the paper's exposition using the formal development as his reference, which reverses the usual order: the Lean came first and the prose was derived from it.

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Verification boundary

unreviewed

A public Lean 4.28.0 development accompanies the paper, containing a formalization of the problem and a proof the author states is sorry-free and adds no axioms. We attempted to compile it and did not complete the build, so the axiom claim here rests on the author's statement rather than on our own check.

Correctness: unknown · statement fidelity: unaudited · peer review: none

Timeline

  1. arXiv:2607.05739 - Integer values of tan(arctan 1 + arctan 2 + ... + arctan n) are rare

    density-one set of n; the conjecture itself remains open

Known method families

argument (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: argument.

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What remains uncertain

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