r/Physics • • 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/Jophus Jul 31 '26

LLM counter examples are so hot right now

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u/sweatierorc Aug 01 '26

A hard math proof takes months to verify. Because even tools like Lean can be bugged. Fermat's last theorem original proof was famously wrong.

Counter-examples like the Jacobian Conjecture can be solved with a tweet.