Rectangles, triangles and Schrödinger waves

Jonathan Bennett, Vjekoslav Kovač, Shohei Nakamura, Itamar Oliveira

Finite planar lattice sets can have an arbitrarily large ratio of ordered rectangles to ordered isosceles triangles, including degenerate configurations. Bennett, Kovač, Nakamura and Oliveira quantify the construction in a box [-N,N]² by a ratio at least (log N)^(c/log log log N), with an analogous cardinality bound.

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What was already known

The authors had asked whether a uniform rectangle-to-triangle bound held for every finite planar lattice set, including a weaker formulation.

AI involvement AI-centered

The authors credit ChatGPT 5.5 Pro with finding the finite lattice-set construction after a simple prompt. They proofread and rewrote it, quantified the bound and developed the separate analytic consequences.

ChatGPT 5.5 Pro supplied the retained finite lattice-set construction; the authors completed and quantified the final theorem and developed distinct analytic applications.

Importance Notable

Gives a constructive negative answer to both uniform-bound questions.

Limitations

The quantitative amplification and separate Schrödinger-wave consequences include later human work. The model transcript is summarized by the authors. Their check and rewritten proof are source reported.

Technical verification Formal (human)

The authors expressly report fully proofreading the correct-in-principle model construction and give a complete rewritten proof in Section 2; this is a source-reported human check of the assessed construction.

Formal checking

full proofreading, clarification and rewriting of the model-found construction; source-reported.

Checker
Jonathan Bennett, Vjekoslav Kovač, Shohei Nakamura and Itamar Oliveira
Scope
Finite lattice sets with an unbounded rectangle-to-isosceles-triangle ratio, the construction behind Theorem 1.2
Basis
Reported by the linked checker
Evidence source

Checking a formal statement does not establish that it matches the original problem.

Human understanding Full

The authors explain the finite-field circle construction, product amplification and lattice lifting that yield the ratio bounds.

Correction and publication history