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Monical, Tokcan and Yong conjectured that every fixed positive power of the Vandermonde determinant fails to have saturated Newton polytope in sufficiently many variables. For every even power k≥4k \ge 4 there is an explicit lattice point of the Newton polytope of aδkka_{\delta_k}^k with vanishing coefficient, obtained from a Dyson constant-term identity; the odd case follows by alternation, proving the conjecture.

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    Codex (GPT-5.6 Sol Extra High), with Thien Le and Melanie Weber

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    The key even-power construction and the proof strategy arose from prompting OpenAI Codex; the complete transcript appears in the paper's appendix. The authors subsequently checked and organized the argument.

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