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A counterexample to the stable forking conjecture
Abstract
Using ChatGPT 5.6, we find a counterexample to the stable forking conjecture. This answers a long-standing open question of Hart, Kim and Pillay (1996).
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BibTeX
@misc{freitag2026counterexample,
title = {{A counterexample to the stable forking conjecture}},
author = {James Freitag and Scott Mutchnik},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.00436},
eprint = {2609.00436},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00436},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A counterexample to the stable forking conjecture
AU - James Freitag
AU - Scott Mutchnik
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/19
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.00436
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00436
AB - Using ChatGPT 5.6, we find a counterexample to the stable forking conjecture. This answers a long-standing open question of Hart, Kim and Pillay (1996).
ER -