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Max Grinsztajn, A 63-dimensional counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture, six-page public note in a GitHub repository, committed 27 May 2026 at the pinned commit linked above, which also holds the repository's verifier and certificates. The repository was created on 26 May 2026; its first commit, at 20:31 UTC that day, already states the claim in the README note, and the six-page PDF was added at 00:32 UTC on 27 May. The note starts from a 320-point core of the Euclidean configuration, which lies in a 63-dimensional subspace and which Jenrich reports splits into 64 five-point parts of smaller diameter, and adjoins one further point: a deleted vertex projected into the span of the core and rescaled by so that the compatibility graph keeps its clique bound. The claimed 321-point set in has smaller-diameter subsets of at most five points, hence needs at least 65 parts where the question allows ; scaled to diameter it would answer the question no in dimension 63. The note's page 6 attributes the construction and proof to work assisted by GPT-5.5 Pro, and its repository lists a deterministic Python verifier, exported DIMACS certificates and a Sage checker. The corpus records the statement at Theorem 1 of the source card.
Standing. The note is unpublished and unrefereed, and no independent acceptance is recorded: the site's problem page does not mention it, and no run of the verifier, audit of the certificates or review of the proof is recorded. The question itself was already answered no by Kahn and Kalai and in dimension 64 by Jenrich and Brouwer, and OpenAI's accepted counterexample in dimension 9 gives a far smaller failing dimension, so this claim does not set the smallest known one; its own truth is unaffected by that.
Formalization. The formal-conjectures file
BorsukConjecture.lean,
to which the problem's statement file points, states the failure in
dimension 63 as borsuk_conjecture.not_sixty_three, credits it to
Grinsztajn's configuration, and attaches as its formal proof the Lean
development linked above, in a fork of that repository. The fork's proof
file says it follows Grinsztajn's construction: the 320-vector core in a
63-dimensional subspace and the projected deleted vertex rescaled by
, with native_decide used for the large finite graph
facts. This corpus has not built it, so it gives no formalized evidence
here, and it adds no acceptance to this claim.
Later reports of the same result. Yibo Ji's arXiv submission of 12 August 2026 claimed the same 321-point set and was withdrawn two days later in favor of the earlier postings; it has its own withdrawn claim page. Nicholas Konz's public web page reports an independent rediscovery of the construction in August 2026 with Claude, assigns priority to Grinsztajn, and says the two point sets agree point for point, scalar included; that is Konz's own comparison. The page is not a dated manuscript held here and gets no claim page of its own.