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  • > Corollary 14 (There is no such thing as a torsor). A torsor is defined as a “group without a distinguished identity element.” No such object exists. The proof is immediate from the axioms of group theory.

    I somehow doubt that a standard concept you can look up [0] is vacuous due to simple word games.

    [0] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/torsor

  • I'm going to believe that both results are true, while simultaneously being not true.
  • (dupe) OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf]

      (https://philarchive.org/archive/NIEWTCv17)
      32 points|muglug|23 hours ago|37 comments
    
    ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140869

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