OpenAI reports the blockwise Alperin weight equality

For every finite group, every prime p, and every p-block B, the number of irreducible Brauer characters in B equals the number of conjugacy classes of B-weights.

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What was already known

The conjecture had been reduced to conditions on finite simple groups, with positive results for substantial group families, but the full blockwise numerical equality remained open in the manuscript’s account.

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 numerical blockwise Alperin weight conjecture for all finite groups and primes.

Limitations

This is the numerical counting statement, not a claimed canonical bijection or stronger equivariant refinement. No completed proof check was documented in the available sources.

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; technical check remains undocumented.

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