Alphabeta Math
CounterexampleConstruction: Literature-sourcedVerification: AI-generatedprecheck passjudge pass (gpt-5.6-terra)audited 2026-09-05
How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

  • Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
  • AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
  • AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.

Selmer's cubic is locally soluble but globally insoluble

Statement refuted

The Hasse-Minkowski local-global principle for quadratic forms does not extend to arbitrary cubic curves.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The simple-root p-adic lifting theorem (Simple roots lift uniquely in Z_p).

[L1]

If fZp[X] has a simple root modulo p, then that root lifts uniquely to Zp (Simple roots lift uniquely in Z_p).

[L2]

If fZp[X] and a0Zp satisfy f(a0)p<f(a0)p2, Newton's criterion produces a p-adic root (Newton's criterion in Q_p).

Counterexample

technique · direct
1.1

Consider Selmer's cubic 3X3+4Y3+5Z3=0. It has a real point because the one-variable equation 3x3+5=0 has a real root, giving (x,0,1). It has a 2-adic point because f(X)=3X3+9 satisfies f(1)0(mod2) and f(1)=9≢0(mod2), so [L1] lifts the mod-2 root and yields a point (x,1,1) in Z23. It has a 3-adic point because 801(mod27), so for g(Y)=Y380 one has g(1)3=34<32=g(1)32; [L2] therefore gives a 3-adic root y of g, and then (0,y,4) lies on the cubic. It has a 5-adic point because h(X)=3X3+32 satisfies h(1)0(mod5) and h(1)=9≢0(mod5), so [L1] yields a 5-adic root x, giving the point (x,2,0).

L1L2givenalgebra
2.1

Conrad's cited note proves that Selmer's cubic has local points over every remaining Qp but no nontrivial rational point over Q. Thus the curve is locally soluble at every completion while globally insoluble, refuting any naive extension of Hasse-Minkowski from quadratic forms to cubic curves.

step 1.1givenalgebra

Depends on

Used by

Nothing in the library uses this result yet.

Dependency tree · two levels

4 results within two dependency steps of this one, each drawn at its shortest distance from it. An arrow runs from a result to what uses it, so the chart reads left to right and ends at this result, which carries a heavier outline. Every node is a link to that result. Click elsewhere on the chart to enlarge it.

Sources