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Patterson’s first moment for cubic Gauss sums

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Proves unconditionally the all-primary-prime form of Patterson’s first-moment asymptotic: normalized cubic Gauss sums over primary Eisenstein primes of norm at most X, including both conjugates, have an explicit positive main term of order \(X^{5/6}/\log X\). Every fixed nonzero prime-angle Fourier mode has smaller order. (OpenAI’s Lean note)

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The paper states

Theorem 1.1 (First moment over primary primes)

In An unconditional first moment for cubic Gauss sums, 25 September 2026

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As X\longrightarrow\infty,

\begin{gathered}\sum_{\substack{N\pi\le X\\\pi\equiv1\pmod3\ \mathrm{prime}}}G(\pi) =\frac65c_*\frac{X^{5/6}}{\log X} +o\!\left(\frac{X^{5/6}}{\log X}\right).\end{gathered}

The sum is over all primary primes in \mathcal O.

Reported proof verification
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An unconditional first moment for cubic Gauss sums

25 September 2026, current edition.

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We prove Patterson’s first-moment conjecture for normalized cubic Gauss sums over all primary Eisenstein primes, unconditionally. The sharp-cutoff main term is \((6/5)c_*X^{5/6}/\log X\), where \(c_*=(2\pi)^{2/3}/(3\Gamma(2/3))\). For every fixed nonzero angular Fourier mode of the prime argument, we also prove cancellation at the first-moment scale.

One Lean statement in this family

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PattersonFirstMoment

The paper states

Theorem 1.1 (First moment over primary primes)

In An unconditional first moment for cubic Gauss sums, 25 September 2026

As X\longrightarrow\infty,

\begin{gathered}\sum_{\substack{N\pi\le X\\\pi\equiv1\pmod3\ \mathrm{prime}}}G(\pi) =\frac65c_*\frac{X^{5/6}}{\log X} +o\!\left(\frac{X^{5/6}}{\log X}\right).\end{gathered}

The sum is over all primary primes in \mathcal O.

The words they share: first, moment, primary, primes.

Possible Lean counterpart

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Patterson first moment and angular cancellation

PattersonFirstMoment.lean, the release lists it as a supporting statement.

def FirstMomentStatement : Prop :=  Asymptotics.IsLittleO Filter.atTop    (fun X : ℝ => primeCutoffSum gaussAtPrime X -      (((6 / 5 : ℝ) * cStar * firstMomentScale X : ℝ) : ℂ))    firstMomentScaletheorem patterson_firstMoment : FirstMomentStatement := by  sorry

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The file states two more theorems: patterson_angularComparison, patterson_angularCancellation.

two independent groups report that Comparator accepted runs for this Lean statement file: cert-machine; Neal McBurnett, openai-math-lean-tooling. Who ran the proof-verification program

  • cert-machine records it as “CERTIFIED”.
  • Neal McBurnett, openai-math-lean-tooling records it as “accepted”.

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MathVet finds that the Lean statements express or imply the whole advertised result (their term: “full”).

Their note: None; custom Gauss-sum/cubic-symbol definitions match the paper’s displayed definition (checked in paper.tex).

Definitions the group asks readers to compare with the paper: Gauss sum, cubic residue symbol and primary-prime predicate are all custom (cubicSymbolAtPrime uses Classical.choose and a fallback value 0; residueRepresentative := Classical.choose...; attribute [local instance] Classical.propDecidable), but they agree with the paper’s definition and the summand is independent of the representative

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cert-machine finds that the Lean statements express or imply the whole advertised result (their term: “MATCHES”).

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Their method: Every Comparator challenge re-run on Linux with nanoda switched on, decided by a preregistered rule.

OpenAI’s own note on what its Lean covers

Patterson’s first-moment conjecture concerns the average of normalized cubic Gauss sums over primary Eisenstein primes. The formalization proves the sharp-cutoff asymptotic with main term $\frac65c_*X^{5/6}/\log X$, where $c_*=(2\pi)^{2/3}/(3\Gamma(2/3))$. It also proves the corresponding angular comparison for every integer Fourier mode and cancellation of order $o(X^{5/6}/\log X)$ for each fixed nonzero mode. All primary Eisenstein primes are included, without an extra conjectural premise.

AI-drafted comparisons, with no recorded human review

  • Patterson first moment and angular cancellation PattersonFirstMoment

    Unreviewed AI draft: states a paper’s theorem as the paper does. States the main theorem, the sharp first-moment asymptotic for cubic Gauss sums over all primary Eisenstein primes, together with the angular comparison and cancellation in each fixed mode.

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Patterson first moment and angular cancellation PattersonFirstMoment

Two reports, all at the release’s recorded version.

Reported byTheir wordTheir accountDateOriginal report
cert-machine“CERTIFIED”Re-run through Comparator with the independent nanoda kernel switched on: Lean’s kernel and nanoda both accept OpenAI’s solution.10 October 2026Original report
Neal McBurnett, openai-math-lean-tooling“accepted”Re-run through Comparator with Lean’s kernel: accepted (the check took 488 s).10 October 2026Original report

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