OpenAI reports expected amenable subalgebras preserving core commutants

For every unital expected inclusion N⊂M of von Neumann algebras with separable preduals, there is an expected unital amenable subalgebra P⊂N with P′∩c(M)=N′∩c(M), where c(M) is the continuous core.

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What was already known

Marrakchi had obtained an expected amenable subalgebra preserving N′∩M and formulated the stronger relative bicentralizer conjecture for commutants inside the continuous core. The core contains modular-action unitaries that the earlier equality did not control.

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

Resolves the relative bicentralizer conjecture for expected inclusions with separable preduals.

Limitations

The linked Lean note checks bounded recovery from modular spectral averages in a companion paper; it does not check the amenable-subalgebra construction or core-commutant equality.

Technical verification Reported

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

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Correction and publication history

2026-10-18 · publication

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

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