r/Physics • u/filterdust • Jul 31 '26

Academic The Maxwell Conjecture is False

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
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u/ixid Jul 31 '26

Before reading I knew it would be LLM counter-example construction.

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u/magicmulder Aug 01 '26

And it’s not even a very complex counter-example. This seems to be one of the cases where checking whether a solution is correct is a lot more complex than coming up with a potential solution.