---
title: "From scale symmetry to local conformal symmetry in four-dimensional QFT"
authors:
  - "OpenAI (internal model)"
year: 2026
venue: "openai/math manuscript collection (GitHub), result family 282; unreviewed"
arxiv: null
doi: null
source: "https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Scale-and-conformal-symmetry-in-four-dimensional-operational-quantum-field-theory-September-26-2026/main.pdf"
topics:
  - "openai-math"
  - "ai-generated-math"
  - "mathematical-physics"
  - "unformalized"
seed_rank: 2137
seed_batch: "openai-math-2026-10-07"
reviewed: "2026-10-07"
pool: "maths-foundations"
relevance_score: 7
lineage: ai-mathematical-reasoning
cites:
  - title: "Scale and conformal symmetry in four-dimensional operational quantum field theory"
    url: "https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Scale-and-conformal-symmetry-in-four-dimensional-operational-quantum-field-theory-September-26-2026/main.pdf"
    year: 2026
    arxiv: null
    doi: null
---

# From scale symmetry to local conformal symmetry in four-dimensional QFT

## One-sentence takeaway

OpenAI's result family 282 (Mathematical physics) claims: Under the stated bounded-local-net and field-reconstruction hypotheses, proves that scale symmetry implies local conformal symmetry for four-dimensional unitary positive-energy theories with a discrete bounded-below scaling spectrum of finite multiplicity, finite scaling support and a physical local scale current.

## Why it matters here

Mathematical physics results sit behind the physical models that rendering and simulation borrow. More broadly, every card in this batch is evidence for the `ai-mathematical-reasoning` thread: per the repo README, an unreleased internal OpenAI model produced it, using about three hours of ChatGPT Pro thinking compute per result on average, across roughly 4,000 posed problems.

## Key ideas

- Family summary (repo): The stress tensor has a traceless improvement with unchanged spacetime charges. The conclusion concerns local Ward identities, not a global conformal action on the whole net.
- *Scale and conformal symmetry in four-dimensional operational quantum field theory*: We prove that scale symmetry implies local conformal symmetry for a class of four-dimensional unitary, positive-energy quantum field theories with a Poincaré- and scale-invariant vacuum. The class has a discrete, bounded-below spectrum of scaling dimensions with finite multiplicities, and each original field has finite scaling support. The original fields and their adjoints have compatible affiliated realizations in a causally commuting bounded local net, and a physical local dilatation current generates scale transformations through its local Ward identities.

## Caveats

- Unreviewed: these are AI-generated manuscripts posted to GitHub with no peer review or arXiv deposit. The repo README says results are "at different stages of verification" and that "some of the unformalized results could have issues."
- This card restates the repo's family summary, manuscript abstracts and Lean scope notes. It is not an independent check of the proofs, and the scope of each theorem is exactly as stated there.
- Lean: not formalized. The repo has no Lean development for this family, so the claim rests on the prose manuscript(s) alone.

## Links

- Manuscript: [Scale and conformal symmetry in four-dimensional operational quantum field theory](https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/Scale-and-conformal-symmetry-in-four-dimensional-operational-quantum-field-theory-September-26-2026/main.pdf)
- Family entry: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/CONTENTS.md
- Overview PDF: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/overview.pdf
- Repo: https://github.com/openai/math