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Stream: maths

Topic: Formalising Hochster's Theorem


Fangming Li (John) (Feb 17 2026 at 17:59):

Hello everyone! I have successfully formalised Hochster's Theorem: every spectral topological space is homeomorphic to the prime spectrum of a commutative ring. Here is the link to my repository: https://github.com/FMLJohn/Hochster.

The theorem has been stated as the following, which can be found in Hochster/Section7.lean:

theorem exists_nonempty_homeomorph (X : Type u) [TopologicalSpace X] [SpectralSpace X] :
     R : Type u,  _ : CommRing R, Nonempty (X ≃ₜ PrimeSpectrum R) := ...

Kevin Buzzard (Feb 17 2026 at 22:10):

Congratulations! You might be the first human I've met who has read the proof :-)


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