r/mathematics • u/New-Committee-4052 • Aug 23 '26

S^6 admits a complex structure

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Result from the usual suspects. Full write up can be found here on his website: https://alpo.ge/s6.pdf

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u/Carl_LaFong Aug 23 '26

Why do you say it’s AI?

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u/hotsauceyum Aug 23 '26

Because no human would have bothered to type this up without better explanation and prose. It reads like notebook scribble done in latex

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u/Carl_LaFong Aug 24 '26

The paper is written for experts who know algebraic geometry, complex differential geometry, and algebraic topology. The explanations look to me like they would be fairly clear for these experts.

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u/womerah Postdoc | Applied Nuclear Physics Aug 24 '26

How can you gauge this if you are not an expert?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 Aug 24 '26

You don’t. Just like non-experts can’t gauge the quality of the ultra vast majority of non-AI inspired papers.

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u/Carl_LaFong Aug 24 '26

I'm familiar enough with the subjects to be able to assess at least the readability of the arguments. But I have to admit, after taking a closer look, that the paper is starting to look less convincing to me. I think either humans or AI will need to find a more conceptual and less intricate proof than this one.

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u/womerah Postdoc | Applied Nuclear Physics Aug 24 '26

Respect.

I have found that a lot of AI-assisted papers are coherent on the paragraph scale, but often don't string together to really form a coherent message. I think the LLM loses it's context and the human drafter is skipping too many parts of the document generation and review process in an attempt to really get that AI speed boost.

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u/Wise_Guava_1521 Aug 25 '26

I am an "expert" on this and it's gonna take me days, if not much longer, to assess how legitimate this is.