Carlos Toledo
Research note — not peer-reviewed. Pilot #2 of the independent-verification lane, re-verified with checks proven able to fail. No contact with the claim's author or the database maintainer has been made — that, like every send, is an owner action.
Lane B pilot #2 · AI-claimed results · challenges · 2026-08-03

The identities under the Mathieu–Zhao classification hold exactly. The theorem above them is still unchecked.

An AI-assisted manuscript claims that for a compact connected Lie group G, the kernel of Haar integration is a Mathieu–Zhao space exactly when G is a torus. Its public record is author-side only: an author-checked manuscript plus an author-run SymPy identity verifier. We re-verified the manuscript’s computational supporting identities independently — our own BigInt-rational multivariate Laurent-polynomial arithmetic (including ℚ[i] for the square-root-free substitution), written without executing the author’s script. All 126 checks hold exactly; 3/3 planted mutations are rejected.

Verdict · node verify.js · exit 0 · 0.04 s · no dependencies
Verdict
CONFIRMED (supporting identities only)
Exact checks
126 / 126
Abelian pair
U·V + T² − 1 ≡ 0, exact
Pascal-row moments
m ≤ 5, all rows; Hopf coefficient to m = 8
Mutation controls
3 / 3 rejected
Source pinned
commit 7573e57
The load-bearing distinction, stated up front: what is confirmed is the manuscript’s computational layer — the finite identity checks its own verifier covers. The classification theorem (general-m extensions, the representation-theoretic transfer, orbit averaging on S³, the Duistermaat–van der Kallen torus direction) is mathematics we did not audit, and this page never says otherwise.

What was verified

With the manuscript’s conventions (Laurent constant term CTw; Haar moment 2∫₀¹CTw(·)·x dx; cm = ∫₀¹(1−t²)mdt): the weighted xz(1,1) witness moments m = 1…6; the abelian pair U, V, T, P with its printed expansion, w-spectrum {−1,0,1,2} and the relations U·V + T² − 1 = 0 and U·P; torus-scaling invariance of all six matrix-entry representatives and the square-root-free B(x,w) reparametrization; the Pascal-row moment identity 2∫CTw(QsPm)x dx = cm·C(m−1,s−1) for m ≤ 5, all admissible s; the reduced Hopf coefficient identity through m = 8; and the closed form cm = 4m(m!)²/(2m+1)!. Mutations — a perturbed coefficient, a sign flip in T, a wrong Pascal row — are all caught.

What was not verified, stated so it cannot be assumed

The theorem. The verifier — the author’s and ours alike — checks finite supporting identities, not the classification. The general-m extension of every spot check, the representation-theoretic transfer (orbit averaging, highest-weight construction, central-quotient descent, adjoint pullback), the reduction of Haar integration to a constant term, and positivity outside the checked ranges are all unaudited mathematics. The formulation. Our implementation and the author’s share the manuscript’s definitions; an error identical in both would pass — the same transcription-gate caveat as pilot #1.

Where this sits in the lane

Part of the independent-verification lane — this page is unit 2 of six. Pilot #1 (the rank-two Poisson counterexample) and pilot #2 are the two “bankers”: fast, fully exact, decisive on their computational layer. The flagship (the Korenblum constant, re-derived in our own outward-rounded interval arithmetic) went green alongside them on 2026-08-03, and three further units on 2026-08-04; the collective verdict — five CONFIRMED, one PARTIAL, under five seconds of total runtime — and the list of what none of the six establishes are on the lane index.

The program is published beside this page: verify.js — plain Node, no dependencies, node verify.js, exit 0, 126 exact checks, 3/3 planted mutations rejected.

Replaced 2026-08-20. This section originally closed: “The flagship — re-deriving the Korenblum-constant Arb certificate in our own outward-rounded interval arithmetic — is the remaining piece of the pilot triad.” It was not remaining: it shipped on 2026-08-03, and the lane finished at six units on 2026-08-04. The sentence described a two-thirds-finished triad for sixteen days after the lane was complete, and is recorded here rather than quietly deleted.
research/challenges/laneb-mathieu · verify.js — own implementation, BigInt-rational Laurent polynomials · VERDICT.md — full checked/not-checked split, sources at commit 7573e57 · claim source: aimath.robertj1.com; artifacts: github.com/octonion/mathematics/mc · battery green 2026-08-03