OpenAI reports bounded klt complements for Fano contractions

For each fixed dimension d and positive rational epsilon, every epsilon-log-canonical Fano contraction of a normal integral variety over an algebraically closed characteristic-zero field admits, near each closed base point, a klt complement whose Cartier index is bounded only by d and epsilon.

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What was already known

Birkar established bounded log-canonical complements for Fano-type fibrations, while bounded klt complements were known for boundary-free Fano fibrations over curves and for base dimension at most two. Keeping discrepancies strictly positive while preserving torsion of the adjoint divisor was the remaining issue (manuscript introduction, Earlier results, pp. 2–3).

AI involvement AI-led

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 Major

Proves a broad bounded-klt-complement theorem and implies the finite-rational-coefficient form of Shokurov’s conjecture.

Limitations

The theorem assumes epsilon-log-canonical singularities, characteristic zero, fixed dimension, and a Fano contraction; the complement exists locally after shrinking near each closed base point. It does not assert one complement globally over the whole base.

Technical verification Reported

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Human understanding Few

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Correction and publication history

2026-10-18 · publication

Primary manuscript, attribution, and prior-work review for non-notifying local inclusion.

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