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Theorem selected for verification:OAI.SymmetricPolar.symmetric_polar_main
The lines of the Lean statement that state the theorem, then the definitions in the file that it uses.
theoremsymmetric_polar_main {n : ℕ} (hn : 2 ≤ n) (K : Set (Position n)) (hK : IsSymmetricConvexBody K) : gromovWidth (polarProduct K) = 4 ∧ ∀ c : ℝ, 0 < c → c < 4 → HasSymplecticEmbedding (capacityBall n c) (polarProduct K) := bysorry
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Definitions needed to read it
Local definitions the statement names, followed through the definitions they name in turn. The match is by name in the source text, so a name reached only through notation can be missed; the full file is below.
defHasSymplecticEmbedding {n : ℕ} (U V : Set (Phase n)) : Prop := ∃ e : Phase n → Phase n, ContDiffOn ℝ ∞ e U ∧ Topology.IsEmbedding (fun z : U => e z) ∧ MapsTo e U V ∧ ∀ z ∈ U, ∀ v w : Phase n, omega0 (fderiv ℝ e z v) (fderiv ℝ e z w) = omega0 v w
noncomputabledefgromovWidth {n : ℕ} (U : Set (Phase n)) : ℝ≥0∞ := sSup (ENNReal.ofReal '' {c : ℝ | 0 < c ∧ HasSymplecticEmbedding (capacityBall n c) U})
Possible paper match, with no recorded review
Atlas selected this possible match by comparing words in the Lean statement with every statement in the family. No review of whether the statements mean the same thing is recorded.
Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: embedding, symplectic, symmetric, body, integer and convex. Found in the paper’s title, which its main theorem states: polar, products and balls. Shared only with the release’s name for the Lean statement or OpenAI’s note on it: origin.
Statements in Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products come first because the release’s name for this Lean statement shares words with that paper’s title.
Theorem 1.1 of Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products
Theorem
For every integer n\ge2 and every origin-symmetric convex body K\subset\R^n,
c_G(U_K)=4.
More precisely, for every 0<c<4 there is a smooth symplectic embedding B^{2n}(c)\hookrightarrow U_K.
For every integer $n\ge2$ and every origin-symmetric convex body
$K\subset\R^n$,
\[
c_G(U_K)=4.
\]
More precisely, for every $0<c<4$ there is a smooth symplectic embedding
$B^{2n}(c)\hookrightarrow U_K$.
Other possible paper matches, closest wording first
Theorem 2.1 of Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products. Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: omega, compact, ball, pi, embedding, symplectic and one more.
Corollary 5.5 of Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products. Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: balls, embeddings, symplectic, symmetric, body, integers and one more. Shared only with the release’s name for the Lean statement or OpenAI’s note on it: origin.
Proposition 4.1 of Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products. Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: interior, embedding, symplectic and integer. Shared only with the release’s name for the Lean statement or OpenAI’s note on it: times and circ.
Corollary 5.3 of Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products. Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: symmetric, body, integer and convex. Shared only with the release’s name for the Lean statement or OpenAI’s note on it: circ and origin.
Corollary 6.2 of The symmetric Mahler conjecture and its equality cases. Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: product, symmetric, body and convex. Shared only with the release’s name for the Lean statement or OpenAI’s note on it: circ and origin.
Theorem 1.1 of The Mahler Conjecture for General Convex Bodies. Words of the Lean statement, its names split into words, that also appear in the theorem: real, body, integer and convex.
How Atlas selects possible matches: it compares words in the Lean statement with every statement in the family. It also splits Lean names into words. The release’s label and note receive less weight; a main theorem wins a close match. If the Lean wording yields no clear match, Atlas uses the catalogue description. This selects passages to compare; it does not establish that they mean the same thing.
Reported Comparator runs
three independent groups report that Comparator accepted runs for this Lean statement file: Carlos Toledo’s cert-machine; MathVet; Neal McBurnett’s openai-math-lean-tooling. Each group reports its own Comparator run for this statement file. Atlas has not repeated the runs.
For a configured theorem, Comparator tests whether OpenAI’s proof proves the exact Lean statement. Some files instead configure definitions for comparison by name and type. Acceptance does not establish that the statement means the same thing as the paper’s theorem.
Every Comparator challenge re-run on Linux with nanoda switched on, decided by a preregistered rule; every family’s challenge statements read against OpenAI’s headline, clause by clause. Decider: Comparator (leanprover/comparator d03acab1 = tag v4.34.0, built with the release’s toolchain v4.34.1), lean4export 076e8e57, landrun 811cfff5, nanoda_lib 3a240721 — on GitHub’s Linux runners (.github/workflows/openai-math-kernel.yml), one j…
AcceptedTheir term: “CERTIFIED”.
Re-run through Comparator with the independent nanoda kernel switched on: Lean’s kernel and nanoda both accept OpenAI’s solution.
An independent, model-assisted, pre-referee reading of each family’s challenge statements against its headline claim under a published rubric (PROTOCOL.md), with its own Comparator runs per challenge. Its protocol describes a planned error-rate study; this import does not establish that the study has been completed.
AcceptedTheir term: “comparator-sandboxed-pass”.
Re-run through Comparator in a sandboxed virtual machine: accepted.
Each challenge’s solution is built and checked by Comparator at the pinned release, on Lean leanprover/lean4:v4.34.1, recording the verdict, the check time and the peak memory; the run was still in progress at this snapshot (192 accepted, 224 pending).
AcceptedTheir term: “accepted”.
Re-run through Comparator with Lean’s kernel: accepted (the check took 202 s; peak memory 6.5 GiB).
If Comparator is run under this configuration and accepts, the solution proves the configured theorem using only the allowed axioms, and the Lean kernel accepts every step.
This configuration lists no definition holes, so every definition the statement uses is compared as it is written in this file.
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Do family 087’s Lean statements express the advertised result?
These assessments compare all the family’s Lean statements with the whole result OpenAI describes in its catalogue. They do not assess this statement alone. Each group uses its own published rules.
MathVet and cert-machine disagree on how much of the advertised result the Lean statements express.
Finds the whole advertised result stated or impliedTheir term: “full”.
The challenge statements imply the headline claim after unpacking definitions or one routine step. Their record
Their note: Symmetric and general Mahler with all equality cases and the Gromov width 4 are stated; the sharp functional Mahler inequalities of the summary are not.
Definitions the group asks readers to compare with the paper: Custom but standard encodings: coordinatePolar (polar w.r.t. the dot product), IsHanner/hannerJoin/hannerProduct, volumeProduct := sInf (... '' interior K), HasSymplecticEmbedding (C^∞ on U, embedding, omega0 pullback condition) and gromovWidth := sSup {c | HasSymplecticEmbedding (capacityBall n c) U} with capacity π r^2
OpenAI’s own note on what this Lean statement covers
“For an origin-symmetric convex body $K\subset\mathbb R^n$, $n\ge2$, the formalized result determines the symplectic ball capacity of $\mathrm{int}\,K\times\mathrm{int}\,K^\circ$: its Gromov width is $4$, and every ball of capacity $0<c<4$ embeds symplectically into it. The normalization assigns capacity $\pi r^2$ to a ball of radius $r$.”
An AI agent drafted an interpretation of that note, classifying this statement as “states a paper’s theorem as the paper does”. No human review of the draft is recorded.
Supporting material
The complete Lean statement file
49 lines, copied from release version fd4aeeb. A name defined in this file links to its line; pointing at the name shows its definition.
Declared in this fileOpenAI’s library at fd4aeebOther linked names open the current documentation for Mathlib, Lean’s mathematical library.
Links in the file: 26 to its own declarations, 27 to Mathlib’s documentation. 10 declared names also link to the same declaration in OpenAI’s library. OpenAI uses Mathlib version d13f23b. The linked documentation describes the current version, so names that have since changed may be missing there.
For every integer $n\ge1$ and every origin-symmetric convex body
$K\subset\R^n$,
\begin{equation}
|K|\,|K^\circ|\ge\frac{4^n}{n!}.
\end{equation}
Equality holds if and only if $K$ is a linear Hanner body.
Corollary(Even functional Mahler inequality)
For every integer n\ge1 and every even proper lower-semicontinuous convex function \varphi:\R^n\to\R\cup\{+\infty\} such that 0<\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi(x)}\,dx<\infty,
For every integer $n\ge1$ and every even proper lower-semicontinuous
convex function $\varphi:\R^n\to\R\cup\{+\infty\}$ such that
$0<\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi(x)}\,dx<\infty$,
\[
\left(\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi(x)}\,dx\right)
\left(\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi^*(y)}\,dy\right)\ge4^n.
\]
The second integral is allowed to be infinite, in which case the
inequality is immediate.
Corollary(Symmetric entropy–transport inequality)
For every integer n\ge1, let \eta_i(dx)=e^{-V_i(x)}\,dx, i=1,2, be full-dimensional log-concave probability measures, both symmetric about the origin, with proper lower-semicontinuous convex potentials V_i. Suppose their densities are essentially continuous, meaning that e^{-V_i}=0 at \mathcal H^{n-1}-almost every point of \partial\operatorname{supp}\eta_i. Their moment measures \nu_i=(\nabla V_i)_\#\eta_i have finite first moments, H(\eta_i)=-\int V_i\,d\eta_i is finite, and
For every integer $n\ge1$, let $\eta_i(dx)=e^{-V_i(x)}\,dx$, $i=1,2$,
be full-dimensional log-concave probability measures, both symmetric
about the origin, with proper lower-semicontinuous convex potentials
$V_i$. Suppose their densities are essentially continuous, meaning that
$e^{-V_i}=0$ at $\mathcal H^{n-1}$-almost every point of
$\partial\operatorname{supp}\eta_i$. Their moment measures
$\nu_i=(\nabla V_i)_\#\eta_i$ have finite first moments,
$H(\eta_i)=-\int V_i\,d\eta_i$ is finite, and
\[
H(\eta_1)+H(\eta_2)\le -n\log(4e^2)+\mathcal T(\nu_1,\nu_2).
\]
For every integer $n\ge1$ and every convex body $K\subset\mathbb R^n$,
\[
P(K)\ge\frac{(n+1)^{n+1}}{(n!)^2}.
\]
Equality holds if and only if $K$ is a simplex.
Corollary(Functional Mahler inequality)
For every integer n\ge1 and every proper lower-semicontinuous convex function \varphi:\R^n\to\R\cup\{+\infty\} such that 0<\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi(x)}\,dx<\infty,
For every integer $n\ge1$ and every proper lower-semicontinuous convex
function $\varphi:\R^n\to\R\cup\{+\infty\}$ such that
$0<\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi(x)}\,dx<\infty$,
\[
\left(\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi(x)}\,dx\right)
\left(\int_{\R^n}e^{-\varphi^*(y)}\,dy\right)\ge e^n.
\]
The second integral is allowed to be infinite, in which case the
inequality is immediate.
For every integer $n\ge2$ and every origin-symmetric convex body
$K\subset\R^n$,
\[
c_G(U_K)=4.
\]
More precisely, for every $0<c<4$ there is a smooth symplectic embedding
$B^{2n}(c)\hookrightarrow U_K$.
propext, Quot.sound, Classical.choiceThe axioms this configuration allows a proof to use. A replay shows which of them a proof uses.
Imports
Mathlib
Imports from outside Mathlib
None
Local vocabulary
9 local vocabulary declarations
Lines of Lean, without comments or blank lines
28
Second proof-verification program (nanoda)
Off in OpenAI's configuration.
Statement comparison
A shareable summary of this page: the proposed paper match, what the Lean statement expresses, and which reviews are recorded.
Plectis Atlas
Gromov width of symmetric polar products
Family 087: The Mahler conjectures, functional inequalities and polar-product symplectic width
Candidate pairing
Theorem
For every integer n\ge2 and every origin-symmetric convex body K\subset\R^n,
c_G(U_K)=4.
More precisely, for every 0<c<4 there is a smooth symplectic embedding B^{2n}(c)\hookrightarrow U_K.
Symplectic Balls in Symmetric Polar Products
TeX label thm:main, build/sections/introduction.tex, line 22
The Lean statement says
theoremsymmetric_polar_main {n : ℕ} (hn : 2 ≤ n) (K : Set (Position n)) (hK : IsSymmetricConvexBody K) : gromovWidth (polarProduct K) = 4 ∧ ∀ c : ℝ, 0 < c → c < 4 → HasSymplecticEmbedding (capacityBall n c) (polarProduct K) := bysorry
A Lean statement states the theorem and leaves its proof as sorry on purpose. OpenAI’s proof is in a separate solution module, and a program called Comparator checks that proof against this statement.
Recorded comparisons with the paper
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Contributed Comparator run reports
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More about this statement
Explanation A statement check against Theorem 1.1 of the polar-products paper finds a full match: the Lean spells out the symplectic form, capacity balls and Gromov width by hand because Mathlib has no symplectic API, and it claims embeddings for every capacity below 4, nothing at exactly 4. SUNNY99, Independent Comparator/Lean audit of two OpenAI mathematical results, 2026-10-07Source
Explanation A five-step reading map of the polar-product construction behind the Gromov width 4 result, in English and Chinese. SUNNY99, Independent Comparator/Lean audit of two OpenAI mathematical results, 2026-10-07Source
Questions to resolve when comparing this statement with the paper
Two independent readers, MathVet and cert-machine, disagree on whether this family's challenges state its headline; a specialist reading would settle it.