VibeMathedMath problems solved by AI

The Huang-Jiang-Oblomkov Conjecture at a = 3

Huang, Jiang and Oblomkov conjectured that the Eulerian qq-series counting commuting pairs of nilpotent matrices with Xa=YbX^a = Y^b equals an explicit theta-and-eta product, making the point count essentially modular. The conjecture is layered in aa; the a=2a = 2 layer is classical, including Rogers-Ramanujan and Andrews-Gordon. Nothing was known for a=3a = 3. That layer is now proved in full, yielding a new infinite family of Rogers-Ramanujan identities and a geometric origin for Warnaar's products.

Result
Proved(see note)
Status
Partial result
AI contribution
AI-assisted
Method
Argument
Field
q-series; arithmetic geometry
Posed by
Huang, Jiang, Oblomkov
Year posed
Years open
Solved
2026-08-06
Model
AxiomProver
Vendor
Axiom Math
Collaborators
Kenny Lau, Ken Ono
Verification
Lean-checked, statement unaudited
Publication
Preprint
Significance
12 / 100
Disclosed cost
Wikipedia
No dedicated article

What was actually shown

Proves the a = 3 layer; the conjecture is layered in a and remains open for larger a.

What the AI did

The mathematics is the authors'; AxiomProver supplied the formal certificate. "AxiomProver, an AI system currently under development, was used to generate this certificate. The system verified these results in Lean assuming existing literature."

Verification

The Lean certificate is explicitly conditional, verifying the new identities assuming results from the existing literature rather than from first principles, and the system that produced it also produced the formal statements. Public at the AxiomMath repository.

Sources

arXiv

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