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Two Counterexamples in the Geometry of Numbers

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Precise statement

The paper gives counterexamples in dimensions eight and nine to two problems: the Cartesian-product problem posed by Cassels for critical determinants and formulated by Zong for lattice packings, and a question raised by Sarnak, formulated as a conjecture by Chiu, on whether height among unit-volume flat tori is minimized by a lattice maximizing its shortest nonzero vector.

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What AI did

ChatGPT 5 + Codex

The acknowledgements state the counterexamples were found using ChatGPT, and that the final paper is partly the author's own writing and partly written with the help of Codex.

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

Verification boundary

unreviewed

No independent check, but the results are explicit counterexamples in dimensions eight and nine and are therefore checkable by inspection. Preprint, not refereed.

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

Timeline

  1. arXiv

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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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