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Nathanson's Problems on Product Intersection Sets

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Precise statement

Nathanson asked which subsets of $\mathbb{N}$ can occur as product intersection sets of a family of semigroup subsets, for arbitrary and for decreasing families (his Problems 10 and 11). Both are solved by complete classifications.

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What AI did

Harmonic Aristotle

"Both classifications were autonomously discovered and formally verified in Lean by Aristotle." The appendix documents the prompts: Aristotle was asked to characterize the two cases separately, then combine them; it even adopted a stronger definition than the source paper's and the Lean code verifies the equivalence explicitly.

Provider: Harmonic · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

lean checked statement unaudited

Discovered and kernel-checked in Lean by the same system; the human authors audited the informal-to-formal correspondence. Tier: Aristotle wrote both proof and formal statements (and at one point adopted a stronger definition than the source paper's, caught by the authors) - exactly the failure mode an independent statement audit exists for, and none has happened.

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

Timeline

  1. arXiv

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Known method families

argument (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: argument.

Independent: unknown · difference confidence: 0

What remains uncertain

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