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Cohen's 22 Conjectures on Cyclic Numbers

22 conjectures of Cohen about cyclic numbers (integers with gcd(n,φ(n))=1\gcd(n, \varphi(n)) = 1) settled at once - 16 proved, 6 disproved - together with a complete resolution of a related OEIS problem on sequences whose running averages are Fibonacci numbers (Fried's Conjecture 2).

Result
Proved
Status
Retracted
AI contribution
AI-assisted
Method
Argument
Field
Elementary number theory
Posed by
Cohen (OEIS conjectures); Fried
Year posed
Years open
Solved
2025-09-30
Model
GPT-5
Vendor
OpenAI
Collaborators
Duc Hieu Le
Verification
Unreviewed
Publication
Preprint
Significance
6 / 100
Disclosed cost
Wikipedia
No dedicated article

What the AI did

"All proofs in the paper were assisted by GPT-5" - a blanket credit across 22 resolutions, with no individual attribution, so the lower tier applies.

Verification

Paper has been retracted from arXiv

Source

arXiv

Changelog4 changes
  • Rasmus Lindahlset Verification note to Paper has been retracted from arXiv, also Status
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Discussion3

LucidManta10207 Aug 2026, 11:41 UTC

The paper is withdrawn, as the author said it is incorrect.

Rasmus Lindahl07 Aug 2026, 12:00 UTC· edited

Thank you for informing. Do you have a source to that? :)

Rasmus Lindahl07 Aug 2026, 12:09 UTC

Actually I see it on arXiv.. Thank you for telling me :)