Baker's Question on Smooth Hyperplane Sections over Finite Fields

Precise statement

Baker asked, as recorded by Poonen, whether a fixed smooth quasiprojective variety over a finite field must acquire a smooth rational hyperplane section after every sufficiently high-dimensional linearly nondegenerate embedding. Poonen predicted no for every positive-dimensional variety, and that prediction is correct.

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What AI did

GPT-based models, Rethlas

The acknowledgement says the author used GPT-based large language models to generate and compare possible proof strategies, some of which was incorporated into the final manuscript, and used the Rethlas agent as an auxiliary proof-checker.

Provider: OpenAI / Frenzy Math · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

unreviewed

arXiv preprint; not yet peer-reviewed.

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

Timeline

1. 2026-06-22

   arXiv:2606.23513 - Hyperplane anti-Bertini embeddings over finite fields

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Known method families

construction (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: construction.

Independent: unknown · difference confidence: 0

What remains uncertain

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• VibeMath has not independently audited the mathematical statement, proof, or novelty claim.