Kusner's Conjecture on Equilateral Sets in ℓ_p^n
Statement
Kusner conjectured in 1983 that the maximum number of points in that are pairwise at -distance one is exactly for every , as in the Euclidean case. False: an explicit configuration of equilateral points exists for some exponent, placing the infimum of exponents at which the conjecture fails in . The configuration is the unique solution of an explicit polynomial system with rational coefficients in a rational box, established in exact arithmetic.
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Logan R. Chalmers, using GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5That credit came with the record as it was imported. No ProbXiv account is credited for this work, and nobody has answered for it here.
The paper's disclosure: GPT-5.6 Sol assisted in implementing the computational search strategy in code, and Claude Fable 5 was used as a tool in drafting. No mathematical step is attributed to a model by name, but the search that produced the configuration is the load-bearing computation.
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