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Wickstead's Conjecture on Positive Projections

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Precise statement

For a positive projection $P$ on a Dedekind complete Banach lattice whose largest central operator below $P$ is $\alpha\,\mathrm{id}$, Wickstead conjectured $\alpha$ must be $0$ or $1/n$ for some natural $n$, and proved the finite-dimensional case. The paper proves the conjecture in general and settles the representation problem for Banach lattice algebras as a consequence.

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What AI did

Claude Opus 4.6

The acknowledgments thank Claude Opus 4.6 "for providing the details of 4.2" - a specific proposition's proof details. The problem had its own session at a February 2026 workshop on Banach lattices.

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Verification boundary

unreviewed

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

Timeline

  1. arXiv

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