What was already known
Embedded topology determines multiplicity for reduced plane curves, and the A’Campo–Lê theorem excludes a multiplicity-one member of any unequal-multiplicity pair. The general embedded Zariski multiplicity question remained open (manuscript introduction, pp. 1–2).
AI involvement
OpenAI credits itself as manuscript author and states that its internal frontier model produced the results in this release. Individual human input is not detailed enough to establish task-only autonomy.
OpenAI is named as author on the manuscript, and its release attributes the results to an internal frontier model. The individual human input is not detailed enough to establish autonomy.
Importance
Gives a negative answer to Zariski’s embedded multiplicity conjecture even for isolated hypersurface singularities.
Limitations
The construction proves existence in a finite ambient dimension divisible by eight; it does not minimize that dimension.
Technical verification
Reported is the default when evidence for a higher level is insufficient. The OpenAI-authored manuscript reports and argues the result, but the reviewed sources do not document a completed check of the full assessed claim.
Human understanding
Few is the default when evidence for a higher level is insufficient. No named person is documented as explaining the central argument for this assessed contribution.
Correction and publication history
Primary manuscript, attribution, and prior-work review for non-notifying local inclusion.
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