Spectral Edge of the Quartic SYK Model
Determine the leading asymptotic of the largest eigenvalue of the -Majorana quartic SYK Hamiltonian as . The preprint proves almost surely, via the limiting free energy at every fixed positive temperature.
- Result
- Proved
- Status
- Candidate (review pending)
- AI contribution
- AI co-developed
- Method
- Argument
- Field
- Random matrices & quantum many-body theory
- Posed by
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- Year posed
- 2016
- Years open
- 10y
- Solved
- 2026-07-22
- Model
- GPT-5.6
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Collaborators
- Yukun He
- Verification
- Unreviewed
- Publication
- Preprint
- Significance
- 15 / 100
- Disclosed cost
- —
- Wikipedia
- No dedicated article
What the AI did
Developed with GPT-5.6; the finite-bath interpolation reduces the quartic SYK pressure to a local cavity-kernel identity.
Verification
Single-author arXiv preprint; independent review pending, so this is recorded as a candidate rather than an accepted resolution.
Source
arXiv:2607.18998 - The spectral edge of the quartic SYK model