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Lenny Taelman

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arXiv2026

SorryDB: Can AI Provers Complete Real-World Lean Theorems?

We present SorryDB, a dynamically-updating benchmark of open Lean tasks drawn from 78 real world formalization projects on GitHub. Unlike existing static benchmarks, often composed of competition problems, hillclimbing the SorryDB benchmark will yield tools that are aligned to the community needs, more usable by mathematicians, and more capable of understanding complex dependencies. Moreover, by providing a continuously updated stream of tasks, SorryDB mitigates test-set contamination and offers a robust metric for an agent's ability to contribute to novel formal mathematics projects. We evaluate a collection of approaches, including generalist large language models, agentic approaches, and specialized symbolic provers, over a selected snapshot of 1000 tasks from SorryDB. We show that current approaches are complementary: even though an agentic approach based on Gemini Flash is the most performant, it is not strictly better than other off-the-shelf large-language models, specialized provers, or even a curated list of Lean tactics.

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arXiv2026

Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI

Artificial intelligence is transforming mathematics at a speed and scale that demand active engagement from the mathematical community. We examine five areas where this transformation is particularly pressing: values, practice, teaching, technology, and ethics. We offer recommendations on safeguarding our intellectual autonomy, rethinking our practice, broadening curricula, building academically oriented infrastructure, and developing shared ethical principles - with the aim of ensuring that the future of mathematics is shaped by the community itself.

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arXiv2025

Deformations and Lifts of Calabi-Yau Varieties in Characteristic $p$

We study deformations of Calabi-Yau varieties in characteristic $p$ using techniques from derived algebraic geometry. We prove a mixed characteristic analogue of the Bogomolov-Tian-Todorov theorem (which states that Calabi-Yau varieties in characteristic $0$ are unobstructed), and we show that ordinary Calabi-Yau varieties admit canonical lifts to characteristic $0$, generalising the Serre-Tate theorem on ordinary abelian varieties.

math.AG↗
arXiv2021

Derived equivalences of hyperkähler varieties

We show that the Looijenga--Lunts--Verbitsky Lie algebra acting on the cohomology of a hyperkähler variety is a derived invariant, and obtain from this a number of consequences for the action on cohomology of derived equivalences between hyperkähler varieties. This includes a proof that derived equivalent hyperkähler varieties have isomorphic $\mathbf{Q}$-Hodge structures, the construction of a rational `Mukai lattice' functorial for derived equivalences, and the computation (up to index 2) of the image of the group of auto-equivalences on the cohomology of certain Hilbert squares of K3 surfaces.

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arXiv2018

Automorphisms of even unimodular lattices and equivariant Witt groups

We characterize the irreducible polynomials that occur as a characteristic polynomial of an automorphism of an even unimodular lattice of given signature, generalizing a theorem of Gross and McMullen. As part of the proof, we give a general criterion in terms of Witt groups for a bilinear form equipped with an action of a group G over a discretely valued field to contain a unimodular G-stable lattice.

math.NT↗
arXiv2018

Complex Multiplication and Shimura Stacks

We prove a variant of the reciprocity laws for CM abelian varieties, CM K3 surfaces, and CM points on Shimura varieties. Given a CM object over the complex numbers, our variation describes the set of all models over a given number field $F$ in terms of associated representations of the absolute Galois group of $F$. An essential feature is that we work with stacky Shimura varieties to deal with objects that have non-trivial automorphisms. To prove the result on K3 surfaces, we show that the stack of polarized K3 surfaces of given degree is an open substack of a certain Shimura stack. The precise statement of this folklore fact seems to be missing from the literature.

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arXiv2018

Ordinary K3 surfaces over a finite field

We give a description of the category of ordinary K3 surfaces over a finite field in terms of linear algebra data over Z. This gives an analogue for K3 surfaces of Deligne's description of the category of ordinary abelian varieties over a finite field, and refines earlier work by N.O. Nygaard and J.-D. Yu. Our main result is conditional on a conjecture on potential semi-stable reduction of K3 surfaces over p-adic fields. We give unconditional versions for K3 surfaces of large Picard rank and for K3 surfaces of small degree.

math.AG↗
arXiv2016

Exterior power operations on higher $K$-groups via binary complexes

We use Grayson's binary multicomplex presentation of algebraic $K$-theory to give a new construction of exterior power operations on the higher $K$-groups of a (quasi-compact) scheme. We show that these operations satisfy the axioms of a $λ$-ring, including the product and composition laws. To prove the composition law we show that the Grothendieck group of the exact category of integral polynomial functors is the universal $λ$-ring on one generator.

math.KT↗
arXiv2015

K3 surfaces over finite fields with given L-function

The zeta function of a K3 surface over a finite field satisfies a number of obvious (archimedean and l-adic) and a number of less obvious (p-adic) constraints. We consider the converse question, in the style of Honda-Tate: given a function Z satisfying all these constraints, does there exist a K3 surface whose zeta-function equals Z? Assuming semi-stable reduction, we show that the answer is yes if we allow a finite extension of the finite field. An important ingredient in the proof is the construction of complex projective K3 surfaces with complex multiplication by a given CM field.

math.AG↗
arXiv2015

Non-additive functors and Euler characteristics

We show under suitable finiteness conditions that a functor between abelian categories induces a (not necessarily additive) map between their Grothendieck groups. This is related to the derived functors of Dold and Puppe, and generalizes a theorem of Dold.

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arXiv2015

Characteristic classes for curves of genus one

We compute the cohomology of the stack M_1 with coefficients in Z[1/2], and in low degrees with coefficients in Z. Cohomology classes on M_1 give rise to characteristic classes, cohomological invariants of families of curves of genus one. We prove a number of vanishing results for those characteristic classes, and give explicit examples of families with non-vanishing characteristic classes.

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arXiv2014

Arithmetic of characteristic p special L-values (with an appendix by V. Bosser)

Recently the second author has associated a finite $\F_q[T]$-module $H$ to the Carlitz module over a finite extension of $\F_q(T)$. This module is an analogue of the ideal class group of a number field. In this paper we study the Galois module structure of this module $H$ for `cyclotomic' extensions of $\F_q(T)$. We obtain function field analogues of some classical results on cyclotomic number fields, such as the $p$-adic class number formula, and a theorem of Mazur and Wiles about the Fitting ideal of ideal class groups. We also relate the Galois module $H$ to Anderson's module of circular units, and give a negative answer to Anderson's Kummer-Vandiver-type conjecture. These results are based on a kind of equivariant class number formula which refines the second author's class number formula for the Carlitz module.

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arXiv2012

The Spiegelungssatz for the Carlitz module

In this addendum to arXiv:1110.0292 we prove a function field analogue of the Spiegelungssatz. It provides a relation between the Galois module structure of the class group of a cyclotomic function field, and the Galois module structure of the class module introduced by the second author. The result is already implicit in earlier work of the authors, but not stated explicitly.

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arXiv2011

A Herbrand-Ribet theorem for function fields

We prove a function field analogue of the Herbrand-Ribet theorem on cyclotomic number fields. The Herbrand-Ribet theorem can be interpreted as a result about cohomology with $μ_p$-coefficients over the splitting field of $μ_p$, and in our analogue both occurrences of $μ_p$ are replaced with the $\mathfrak{p}$-torsion scheme of the Carlitz module for a prime $\mathfrak{p}$ in $\F_q[t]$.

math.NT↗
arXiv2011

Special L-values of Drinfeld modules

We state and prove a formula for a certain value of the Goss L-function of a Drinfeld module. This gives characteristic-p-valued function field analogues of the class number formula and of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. The formula and its proof are presented in an entirely self-contained fashion.

math.NT↗
arXiv2010

The Carlitz shtuka

Recently we have used the Carlitz exponential map to define a finitely generated submodule of the Carlitz module having the right properties to be a function field analogue of the group of units in a number field. Similarly, we constructed a finite module analogous to the class group of a number field. In this short note more algebraic constructions of these "unit" and "class" modules are given and they are related to Ext modules in the category of shtukas.

math.NT↗
arXiv2010

1-t-motifs

We show that the module of rational points on an abelian t-module E is canonically isomorphic with the module Ext^1(M_E, K[t]) of extensions of the trivial t-motif K[t] by the t-motif M_E associated with E. This generalizes prior results of Anderson and Thakur, Papanikolas and Ramachandran, and Woo. In case E is uniformizable then we show that this extension module is canonically isomorphic with the corresponding extension module of Pink-Hodge structures. This situation is formally very similar to Deligne's theory of 1-motifs and we have tried to build up the theory in a way that makes this analogy as clear as possible.

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