OpenAI reports Lipschitz-equivalent Banach spaces without linear isomorphism

There are separable real Banach spaces X and Y with a global bi-Lipschitz bijection but no bounded linear isomorphism between them; X contains an isometric copy of c₀(ℓ₂), while Y contains no bounded linear copy of that space.

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What was already known

Earlier nonisomorphic examples concerned weaker uniform equivalence or special settings. Positive rigidity results for c₀ and other classes left the global separable bi-Lipschitz question open.

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

Answers the separable Banach-space Lipschitz-isomorphism problem negatively.

Limitations

The formalized bijection has lower and upper Lipschitz bounds 4/21 and 76/25. The obstruction is c₀(ℓ₂), not ordinary c₀.

Technical verification Formal (Lean 4)

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Formal checking

The pinned Lean note constructs the stated separable real spaces, explicit bi-Lipschitz bijection and c₀(ℓ₂) linear obstruction.

Checker
OpenAI-reported Lean 4 / Comparator
Scope
There are separable real Banach spaces X and Y with a global bi-Lipschitz bijection but no bounded linear isomorphism between them; X contains an isometric copy of c₀(ℓ₂), while Y contains no bounded linear copy of that space.
Basis
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Evidence source

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Human understanding Few

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

2026-10-18 · publication

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

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