Problem detail · source-aware

The Han-Xiong Integer Trace Conjecture

partialconfidence 70%

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Precise statement

Han and Xiong extended the Gaussian binomial coefficient to positive rational index and conjectured that its integer trace, the integer-exponent part of the resulting power series, is coefficientwise largest at the integer point. Ono's paper proves a support-dominance theorem settling the conjecture for a large family of rational parameters and reduces the full conjecture to unit fractions, with a finite computer verification covering every remaining case up to a fixed bound.

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What AI did

AxiomProver

The theoretical results were autonomously produced and verified in Lean by AxiomProver: the formal statements and proofs of Theorem 1.3, Corollary 1.4 and Theorem 1.5 were generated from a natural-language statement of the problem containing no proofs, then checked by the Lean proof assistant. An appendix records precisely what was and was not supplied to the system.

Provider: Axiom Math · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

lean checked statement unaudited

The main theorems were formalized and kernel-checked in Lean by the same system that produced them; the human author wrote the paper from that formal development. Tier: AxiomProver generated the formal statements and proofs from a natural-language prompt; nobody independent has audited the statement fidelity.

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

Timeline

  1. arXiv

    Settles the conjecture for a large family and reduces the rest to unit fractions; the general unit-fraction case remains open.

Known method families

argument (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: argument.

Independent: unknown · difference confidence: 0

What remains uncertain

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