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Independent Lean verification of Goemans’ cost counterexample

Project documentationPublication date Aug 1, 2026
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Overview

The project verifies the rational and real cost conjecture refutations and exact optimum 60 for the displayed instance.

Public formal source; execution and statement correspondence are separate checks.

Passages

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Submission.lean headline theorems; README provenance and verification boundaries

The project verifies the rational and real cost conjecture refutations and exact optimum 60 for the displayed instance.

Passage details

Passage ID: dinitz-garg-goemans-flow:entry:lean:v1

Source item: lean

Source record: dinitz-garg-goemans-flow:source:lean:v1

Used in

Explicit citations in versioned problem publications. A citation records a use; it does not confer proof or independent verification.

Cost-preserving unsplittable flow →

Problem publication v3

Problem context · 4 citations

Research activity

Reproduce the two formal evidence paths

The AFP theory and the Lean project expose independent definitions, path enumerations and theorem targets.

Local finite arithmetic checks are not execution of either proof assistant.

Files

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Formal code

Independent Lean verification of Goemans’ cost counterexample — pinned source ↗

No OpenMath execution recorded

Exact source inspected; OpenMath has not executed this formal proof project.

Resource revision: ffba3523f0edd14be3460d039f22a6b98c02fd9e

File checksum

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243048c83defcaecf809840f9fd1f89c81dc4b9c7c19eff1b3725071a91c580f

Formal declarations

Lean: exact optimum 60 ↗

Complete formal proof reported externally

The endpoint establishes non-vacuity and the exact optimum. The project’s check script reports only standard logical axioms; OpenMath has not run that script.

Statement match: Linked by OpenMath · independent review separate · checked Oct 13, 2026

Declaration & revision

Lean: the literature-faithful rational cost conjecture is false ↗

Complete formal proof reported externally

This declaration proves the negation of the positive conjecture above, over ℚ. Its name denotes a refutation, not a proof of the conjecture. The repository separately supplies a real-coefficient refutation. Planarity is discussed in the README and is not part of its formalized boundary.

Statement match: Linked by OpenMath · independent review separate · checked Oct 13, 2026

Declaration & revision

Credits

Recorded authorship

Jason Hickey

AI involvement reported by the source

Jason Hickey credits Claude for the verification work and credits Dmitry Rybin’s GPT-5.6 Pro session for the original counterexample.

Versions

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  1. ffba3523f0edd14be3460d039f22a6b98c02fd9eObserved Oct 13, 2026 · used in current publications

    Independent Lean verification of Goemans’ cost counterexample

  2. Independent Lean verification of Goemans’ cost counterexample

Record details
Source ID
dinitz-garg-goemans-flow-lean
Record ID
dinitz-garg-goemans-flow:source:lean:v1
Recorded title
Independent Lean verification of Goemans’ cost counterexample
Revision
ffba3523f0edd14be3460d039f22a6b98c02fd9e
Observed
Oct 13, 2026
Source updated
Not recorded
Content SHA-256
243048c83defcaecf809840f9fd1f89c81dc4b9c7c19eff1b3725071a91c580f
Update method
Compare the exact source and publish a new immutable curation revision.
Identifier policy
Stable source identity with exact versioned passages.
Check interval
90 days
Rights
metadata-link
License
Original source license and document rights apply.

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