Hopfield critical capacity bracketed, by Claude Opus 5.5
Awaiting review
Importance: major (4 of 5)The takeaway
A Hexagon deposit contributed by Yuwen Zhou claims to prove that the zero-temperature critical capacity of the Hopfield model lies in [0.138198129, 0.13820106], against a previous best rigorous lower bound of 0.113.
Status
- Claim
Awaiting review
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Verification
- Unverified claim
- Importance
- Major (4 of 5)
- Last verified
- 6 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra189 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5128 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon219 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7158 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 128 days before it.
Key facts
- Hexagon 2611.00105, 5 Nov 2026; authorship ‘no-human-author-claimed’, human understanding ‘some’
- Claimed interval [0.138198129, 0.13820106]; best rigorous lower bound before: 0.113; the lower end exceeds the published one- and two-step replica-symmetry-breaking values
- The physics prediction αc ≈ 0.138 dates to Amit, Gutfreund and Sompolinsky (1985)
- Provenance: ‘Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) derived the proofs and wrote the rest, and GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) wrote an independent report on each result. A final audit by fresh AI readers covered the longer version’
- Code and data: github.com/OctopusTide/hopfield-capacity
What happened
Hexagon 2611.001051 claims a rigorous narrow interval for the capacity value physicists predicted in 1985 (about 0.138). The record says the work was generated mainly by AI systems, with a human checking parts. Hexagon does not judge correctness.
Why it matters
Turning the replica prediction for the Hopfield model into a theorem has been a long-standing goal in the mathematics of spin glasses. If correct, this is a large jump from the 0.113 lower bound. No expert comment was found on 6 Nov.
What is disputed or not yet verified
| Verification | Hexagon deposit, unrefereed, AI cross-review only |
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Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 2 primary
Primary
- Hexagon 2611.00105: The critical capacity of the Hopfield modelhexagonmath.org, paper
- Code: OctopusTide/hopfield-capacitygithub.com, code
Changes
- Filed from the Hexagon record