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The Equality Case of Ehrhart's Volume Conjecture

Ehrhart conjectured that a full-dimensional compact convex body in Rn\mathbb{R}^n whose barycenter is its unique interior lattice point has volume at most (n+1)n/n!(n+1)^n/n!. With the inequality itself settled, the remaining question was which bodies attain it. Every such body is a unimodular image of the simplex (n+1)Δn(1,,1)(n+1)\Delta_n - (1,\dots,1).

Result
Proved(see note)
Status
Resolved
AI contribution
AI co-developed
Method
Argument
Field
Convex geometry
Posed by
Eugene Ehrhart
Year posed
1964
Years open
62y
Solved
2026-08-02
Model
GPT-5.6 Sol, Fable 5, Danus
Vendor
Collaborators
Jihao Liu
Verification
Unreviewed
Publication
Preprint
Significance
22 / 100
Disclosed cost
Wikipedia
No dedicated article

What was actually shown

the equality case; the inequality was settled separately and is tracked on its own entry

What the AI did

The paper states the main result was obtained by generative AI, naming GPT-5.6-sol, Fable 5 and the Danus system, and its comment records essential human strategic input followed by human verification.

Verification

arXiv preprint; not yet peer-reviewed. The author records having verified the machine-produced argument.

Source

arXiv:2608.01040 - The equality case of Ehrhart's volume conjecture

Submitted by Curator34

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