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The Tree Product Conjecture

resolvedconfidence 70%

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Precise statement

Campbell, Distel, Gollin, Harvey, Hendrey, Hickingbotham, Mohar and Wood conjectured that every graph of degree-$d$ polynomial growth embeds into the strong product of $d$ trees of linear growth and a bounded clique. False for $d = 4$: a counterexample built from the discrete Heisenberg group.

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What AI did

ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

The AI disclosure is narrow and specific: the model was used to help work out the details of the compactness argument. The Heisenberg group counterexample is the authors'.

Provider: OpenAI · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

unreviewed

arXiv preprint; not yet peer-reviewed.

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

Timeline

  1. arXiv:2607.03041 - Disproof of the tree product conjecture via the Heisenberg group

    disproved at d = 4; the conjecture for smaller d is untouched

Known method families

construction (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: construction.

Independent: unknown · difference confidence: 0

What remains uncertain

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