A torsion-free counterexample to the Kadison–Kaplansky projection conjecture

OpenAI

A finitely generated torsion-free discrete group has a scalar projection e in its reduced group C*-algebra whose canonical trace lies strictly between zero and one-half.

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What was already known

The projection conjecture held for many group classes covered by assembly results. Earlier irrational von Neumann kernel dimensions did not put a projection in the reduced group C*-algebra.

AI involvement AI-led

OpenAI attributes the projection manuscript to its internal model. The release does not describe this session sufficiently to establish autonomous origin.

The internal-model manuscript supplies the projection construction; the release does not establish AI-autonomous status for this run.

Importance Major

Refutes the projection form of the Kadison–Kaplansky conjecture.

Limitations

The claim concerns a reduced-algebra projection, not an idempotent in the complex group ring. No completed machine formalization or explicit human check of reduced-algebra membership and the trace bound is documented.

Technical verification Reported

The manuscript reports a proof, but no completed machine formalization or explicit human check of reduced-algebra membership and the trace bound is documented. Reported is the evidence default.

Human understanding Few

The source contains an argument but no named human account of its central spectral-gap mechanism. Few is the evidence default.

Correction and publication history