OpenAI reports numerical-dimension-one log abundance in characteristic above three

For a projective log canonical threefold pair over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p > 3, if the rational log canonical divisor K_X+B is Q-Cartier, nef, and has numerical dimension one, then it is semiample.

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What was already known

Log abundance for complex log canonical threefolds was known. In positive characteristic, earlier threefold nonvanishing and abundance results had stronger terminal or klt assumptions, or addressed nef dimension rather than this full log canonical numerical-dimension-one case (manuscript introduction, pp. 1–2).

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 Notable

Establishes a new log abundance case for positive-characteristic threefolds without terminality or Q-factoriality of the original variety.

Limitations

The theorem is confined to characteristic p > 3, dimension three, rational boundary, and numerical dimension one; it does not prove general log abundance.

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

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

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