cert-machine · the monthly ledger

Decided, September 2026: the monthly register

Every published claim this machine decided in September 2026, read from the register: what held, what did not, and what went wrong, in one closed vocabulary. The page is a dated diff of the records — nothing on it is typed.

The month is closed. A row belongs to the month in which its deciding record first held it (the first commit, by git's pickaxe on the record). 18 claims were decided before September 2026 and are on the claims desk, not here.

tl;dr
  • The finding. 68 published claims decided in September 2026: 48 CERTIFIED, 8 PARTIAL, 5 REPAIRED, 4 MIXED, 2 NEEDS DATA, 1 REFUTED. 20 of them name something that went wrong — 7 narrower scope, 4 tolerance witness, 2 arithmetic slip, 2 data not public, 1 not from the published data, 1 not the optimum, 1 wrong quantity, 1 depends on reading, 1 checker wider than definition; the other 48 hold as printed. 4 rows are one audit of many items (a dataset's keys, a benchmark's counts); the row counts once and names its most frequent defect.
  • The mechanism. Each row is derived from the record that decided it; a claim with no record gets no row. CERTIFIED and REFUTED are theorems; PARTIAL, MIXED, REPAIRED and NEEDS DATA are compositions of the three verdicts, named on the claims desk.
  • Check it. node tools/run-claims-ledger.js && node tools/build-report-monthly.js — the register is certs/claims-ledger.json.
decided this month
68
48 CERTIFIED, 8 PARTIAL, 5 REPAIRED, 4 MIXED, 2 NEEDS DATA, 1 REFUTED.
held as printed
48
The row names nothing that went wrong. Most published claims hold, and the ledger says so first.
something went wrong
20
7 narrower scope, 4 tolerance witness, 2 arithmetic slip, 2 data not public, 1 not from the published data, 1 not the optimum, 1 wrong quantity, 1 depends on reading, 1 checker wider than definition.
decided before
18
Carried on the claims desk; the register holds 146 rows in all.
§1 · the rows

What was decided, in the order it was decided

recordedclaimclaimantverdictwhat went wrongwhere
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 593 — the May 2025 record
AlphaEvolve (Novikov et al., DeepMind)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(4) >= 24 — exact value, Musin 2003
classical (generated here)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(8) = 240 — exact value, Levenshtein / Odlyzko–Sloane 1979
classical (generated here)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 594 — the solved n=594 rung, score-0 winner (solution #1492)
EinsteinArena agents (Bianchi et al. platform)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 604 — the paper's headline result, credited by Cohn's reference table (2026-06-22)
EinsteinArena (Bianchi, Kwon, Pappu, Zou — arXiv:2606.10402)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 592 — the 2022 record the AI ladder started from
M. Ganzhinov (arXiv:2207.08266, Highly symmetric lines)
QUEUED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 604 — configuration 1 of three
The Station agents (dualverse-ai)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 604 — configuration 2 of three
The Station agents (dualverse-ai)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 604 — configuration 3 of three
The Station agents (dualverse-ai)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03construction device: 604 integer D12 vectors whose oblique shadow is configuration 3 (also a valid 604-point direction set in R^12)
The Station agents (dualverse-ai)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑03K(11) >= 582 — the pre-2022 record shell, integer norm-4 maximum (Lean-proved maximal by the Station)
classical (Best 1977 class; bytes from the Station bundle)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08f ≥ 0 as 600 values on [−1/4, 1/4]: C₁ ≤ 1.50529397
AlphaEvolve (arXiv:2506.13131)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08f ≥ 0 as 1319 values on [−1/4, 1/4]: C₁ ≤ (no value printed for this file)
AlphaEvolve V2 (arXiv:2511.02864)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08f ≥ 0 as 30000 values on [−1/4, 1/4]: C₁ ≤ 1.50286286
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08f ≥ 0 as 30000 values on [−1/4, 1/4]: C₁ ≤ 1.50286290
TTT-Discover (arXiv:2601.16175)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08n = 21 circles in a rectangle of perimeter 4 (bounding box w + h ≤ 2), no overlaps: Σ r = 2.3658321334
AlphaEvolve V2 (Georgiev, Gómez-Serrano, Tao, Wagner — arXiv:2511.02864)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08n = 21 circles in a rectangle of perimeter 4 (bounding box w + h ≤ 2), no overlaps: Σ r = 2.3658323759
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
REPAIREDtolerance witnessthe record
2026‑09‑08100 rows of 20 weights → (edge density, triangle density) points; the platform's envelope score = -0.712494
AlphaEvolve V2 (arXiv:2511.02864)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08100 rows of 20 weights → (edge density, triangle density) points; the platform's envelope score = -0.712256
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑0870 coefficients ±1: C⁺ = max_{|z|=1} |g(z)| / √71 = 1.340925
AlphaEvolve V2 (arXiv:2511.02864)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑0870 coefficients ±1: C⁺ = max_{|z|=1} |g(z)| / √71 = 1.280932
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08n = 14 points, min triangle area / convex-hull area = 0.0278355715
AlphaEvolve V2 (arXiv:2511.02864)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08n = 14 points, min triangle area / convex-hull area = 0.0278355805
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑0812 unit hexagons inside a hexagon of side 3.9419123, no overlaps, all inside: score = the outer side
AlphaEvolve V2 (arXiv:2511.02864)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑0812 unit hexagons inside a hexagon of side 3.9416523, no overlaps, all inside: score = the outer side
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08n = 16 points, (max distance / min distance)² = 12.889266
AlphaEvolve (Novikov et al. — arXiv:2506.13131)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08n = 16 points, (max distance / min distance)² = 12.889230
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08a step function h with 95 steps, 0 ≤ h ≤ 1, Σh = n/2: upper bound 0.380924
AlphaEvolve (arXiv:2506.13131)
REPAIREDtolerance witnessthe record
2026‑09‑08a step function h with 51 steps, 0 ≤ h ≤ 1, Σh = n/2: upper bound 0.380927
J. K. Haugland (arXiv:1609.08000)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑08a step function h with 600 steps, 0 ≤ h ≤ 1, Σh = n/2: upper bound 0.380871
Together AI agents (the EinsteinArena repository)
REPAIREDtolerance witnessthe record
2026‑09‑08a step function h with 600 steps, 0 ≤ h ≤ 1, Σh = n/2: upper bound 0.380876
TTT-Discover (Yuksekgonul et al. — arXiv:2601.16175)
REPAIREDtolerance witnessthe record
2026‑09‑15the exceedance counts printed for the environmental-contour benchmark's 150 contours
the benchmark's contributing teams (Haselsteiner et al., Ocean Eng. 2021)
MIXEDnot from the published datathe record
2026‑09‑21the worked solutions of GSM8K's 8,792 test and train keys
GSM8K (Cobbe et al., 2021)
MIXEDarithmetic slipthe record
2026‑09‑22the time-horizon coefficients and 50% horizons METR prints for 23 models
METR (Time Horizon 1.1)
MIXEDnot the optimumthe record
2026‑09‑27the 15 Hs marginal fits the benchmark teams printed for buoys A, B and C
the environmental-contour benchmark's contributing teams
MIXEDwrong quantitythe record
2026‑09‑28the annual-maximum Hs fits of 20 printed rows for five South Atlantic lease areas
Bhaskaran et al. (Energies 16, 6935, 2023)
NEEDS DATAdata not publicthe record
2026‑09‑29Borcea-Branden AIM problems
GPT-5 (Pro), GPT-5.6 (Pro), Opus 5 (S. Sra's counterexample library)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29Courtade's volume conjecture for Minkowski sums is false
Suvrit Sra, by hand (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Feasible Picard steps for DPP likelihood
GPT-5.6 (S. Sra's counterexample library)
PARTIALdepends on readingthe record
2026‑09‑29Failure of the proposed Hamiltonian NEPv Rayleigh identity
OpenAI Codex (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Log-volume midpoint gap and its Lorentzian generalization
GPT-5.6 Pro (S. Sra's counterexample library)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29Macdonald lattice Schur-convexity
GPT-5.6 (Pro) (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29No dimension-free constant in O'Donnell's matrix conjecture
GPT-5.6 Pro (S. Sra's counterexample library)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29An oblivious subspace injection need not give relative-error sketch-and-solve
OpenAI Codex (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Exact QRCP can miss the orthonormal-row conditioning bound
OpenAI Codex (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Quantum coupon collection: positivity of an alternating sum of inverses
GPT Pro (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29A mixed-norm Cauchy-Schwarz question of Sah, Sawhney, Stoner and Zhao
GPT-5.6 Sol (Pro), Opus 5 (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Strict diagonal dominance does not ensure diminishing Nyström error reductions
OpenAI Codex (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Derivatives of the Jacobi-theta kernel
GPT-5.5 (Pro) (S. Sra's counterexample library)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29Variance-sensitive Matrix Spencer
GPT-5.5 (Pro) (S. Sra's counterexample library)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29R(k,k) <= 3.78233^(k+o(k)): Theorem 1 of Gupta–Ndiaye–Norin–Wei holds with G_AI (one more iteration of Theorem 14)
ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, printed by Gupta, Ndiaye, Norin and Wei as preliminary and unverified (arXiv 2407.19026v2)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29three closed forms that "pass the compliance check and match the high-precision reference"
GPT-5.6 Sol Max (HorizonMath, arXiv 2603.15617v2)
NEEDS DATAdata not publicthe record
2026‑09‑29Area(E) = 0.1091479892... < 0.1148103258186177 (the AlphaEvolve baseline)
GPT-5.4 Pro, reproduced by GPT-5.6 Sol Max (HorizonMath, arXiv 2603.15617v2, Appendix A.2)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29R(k,k) <= 3.6960839126^(k+o(k)), improving 3.7992 (Gupta–Ndiaye–Norin–Wei), by a certificate that satisfies their Theorem 14
GPT-5.4 Pro, reproduced by GPT-5.6 Sol Max (HorizonMath, arXiv 2603.15617v2, Appendix A.3)
REFUTEDchecker wider than definitionthe record
2026‑09‑29C3b >= 1.77898884 (the registry's asterisked lower bound)
Mosaic Intelligence (2026)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29C3c >= 1.6747338950414058 (the registry's asterisked lower bound)
Y. Lin (2026)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29C3c >= 1.6747338950208249 (superseded in the registry)
Mosaic Intelligence (2026)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29C42 <= 0.6906538 (the registry's asterisked upper bound)
S. Griego (github.com/sebastian-griego/turan-c42-certificate v1.0.0)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29C42 <= 0.688983 (an open pull request to the registry)
A. Röhrig with Codex (teorth/optimizationproblems PR #184, 9 Sep 2026)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29C71 > 6.521845710923046575 (the registry's asterisked lower bound)
Numaro (numaro.tech, "AI Autoresearch"), Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.21497769
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29C84b <= 1.999281 (c >= 0.000719) (the registry's asterisked upper bound)
I. Althoefer with ChatGPT 5.5 (the note, 28 May 2026), as the registry quotes it
REPAIREDarithmetic slipthe record
2026‑09‑29Phi, a cubic map of C^11 with det J = -2 that is not injective (the gist that first published it says ChatGPT generated it)
Castañeda, Honorato, Valenzuela-Henríquez (arXiv 2608.05392); the map first published in a gist that says ChatGPT generated it
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29X on R^14 (degree 7): JX has spectrum {-1} at every point and X has three zeros, so the weak Markus–Yamabe conjecture fails in dimension 14
Castañeda, Honorato, Valenzuela-Henríquez (arXiv 2608.05392)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29X-hat on R^18 (degree 3): spectrum {-1} everywhere, three zeros — decided as a symbolic identity where the paper's appendix checks one sample point
Castañeda, Honorato, Valenzuela-Henríquez (arXiv 2608.05392)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29F4: a polynomial map of C^4 with det J = -44/9 that is not injective (a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture), printed in full
S. Gao, with Claude Fable 5 assisting (arXiv 2608.00222)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29F5: a polynomial map of C^4 with det J = 160/29 that is not injective (a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture), printed in full
S. Gao, with Claude Fable 5 assisting (arXiv 2608.00222)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29F6: the map the printed construction defines (n = 5), det J = -290, not injective
S. Gao, with Claude Fable 5 assisting (arXiv 2608.00222)
CERTIFIED—the record
2026‑09‑29F7: the map the printed construction defines (n = 5), det J = 119377, not injective
S. Gao, with Claude Fable 5 assisting (arXiv 2608.00222)
PARTIALnarrower scopethe record
2026‑09‑29G: a polynomial map of C^3 with det J = 2 that is not injective (a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture), printed in full
S. Gao, with Claude Fable 5 assisting (arXiv 2608.00222)
CERTIFIED—the record
§2 · the vocabulary

What went wrong, in words

The vocabulary is closed: 14 kinds, defined once in tools/run-claims-ledger.js. A defect that fits none of them refuses the register until the vocabulary is decided on, never "other".

§3 · not here

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