Yang-Mills Mass Gap Debate
The question
Does the Yang-Mills theory have a mass gap? This is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics, with a $1 million prize. No human has solved it.
The process
Three independent teams were assigned competing approaches to the problem. Each team's proposals were internally stress-tested before being published to the shared debate. A dedicated gatekeeper function killed any claim that couldn't be traced to the sealed evidence base. All verification was performed automatically with no human intervention.
What happened
Three teams attacked the problem from different angles: lattice gauge theory, stochastic PDE methods, and pure gatekeeping. Proposals were verified internally before publication. The gatekeeper function killed any claim that couldn't be traced to sealed evidence.
Evidence base
Sealed Evidence Locker
40 academic papers admitted by the Evidence Tribunal. 27 evidence gaps identified.
Sources: arXiv, OpenAlex, PubMed, Semantic Scholar
Sealed with SHA-256 Merkle tree before debate began. No new evidence entered mid-debate.
VERIFIED: 909 claims REJECTED: 12 claims
Key findings
- Teams converged on lattice gauge theory as the most promising path, with stochastic PDE methods providing independent confirmation
- Gatekeeper team rejected 12 claims across 10 rounds for insufficient evidence grounding
- The debate identified 27 specific gaps in the existing literature that future research could address
- Error rate held at p² per claim due to serial verification within each team
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