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A note on counterexamples to homological conjectures

A mix of human-written and AI-generated textHuman understanding: no partsmath.RT — Representation Theorymath.RA — Rings and Algebras

Contributed by 琪越 唐

Version 3 / Oct 07, 2026 / CC BY 4.0

Abstract

Building on the constructions of OpenAI, we extend these constructions to any base field containing an element of infinite multiplicative order. Over each such field, we obtain finite-dimensional algebras giving counterexamples to both Tachikawa conjectures, the Auslander–Reiten conjecture, the Gorenstein-projective conjecture, the Nakayama, generalized Nakayama, and strong Nakayama conjectures, the Auslander–Gorenstein conjecture, the little and big finitistic dimension conjectures, and the Wakamatsu tilting conjecture.

Provenance statement

Based on Open AI’s Result No. 199 released today, we conducted a complete adversarial review using GPT-6-Astra-Pro (the prompts are given below) and attempted to have it generalize the counterexample to a more general domain. After obtaining the results, we independently conducted a strong adversarial review using GPT-6-Astra and used the built-in Writing Skill to polish the writing. Prompt: "Please read our paper and the related supporting materials. I am inclined to believe that this paper has errors or gaps. Please help me identify them. If there are errors, you do not need to correct them. If there are gaps that can be fixed, please fix them and write detailed revision suggestions. 1. Method: Please conduct strong adversarial checking, attacking each Lemma, Prop, Thm, etc. in order. Do not overlook any detail. Do not trust any memory in the historical record. I hope you will re-derive this entire paper completely and meticulously from scratch. When encountering citations, please carefully verify whether the citation scope is correct, and whether there are mis-citations, indiscriminate citations, etc. 2. Check whether the proofs are repetitive and verbose, whether they can be optimized, and whether more generalizations can be made based on this counterexample. (We make generalizations, for example, generalizing 199A to arbitrary fields; for 199B, see whether it can be used to refute other major conjectures, such as SNC, GNC, ARC, NC, etc.) If possible, please include them in the report as well. 3. What do you think of the writing in this paper? Is its readability very poor? If you can improve it further (by imitating the best human mathematical papers), please write out revision suggestions. Finally, just generate one overall report in md." Uploading this paper to this platform does not mean that I claim ownership or copyright over it. My sole intention is to share this AI-generated solution and make it available for independent review. Once its correctness has been independently verified, the paper may be cited directly. I welcome anyone who would like to organize this work; if you do so, the credit will be yours. I also welcome further research building on this work, including extensions, new applications, and related questions. For additional references or detailed research materials, please contact me by email. Email: tangqy24@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

References

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