2 papers
math.NT2026
The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers
Thomas F Bloom, Will Sawin, Carl Schildkraut +1
We disprove the sum-product conjecture for real numbers by constructing arbitrarily large (whose elements are algebraic integers in a number field of degree $…
math.CO2026
Remarks on the disproof of the unit distance conjecture
Noga Alon, Thomas F. Bloom, W. T. Gowers +6
We present a short, digested, human-verified version of the recent OpenAI-generated counterexample to the Erdős unit distance conjecture, and a sequence of reflections on it. The a…