Gauss and human collaborators: formalizing eight-dimensional sphere packing

What changed

Reports Gauss completing the final stage of an existing human-led Lean project.

Scientific scope

Reports Gauss completing the final stage of an existing human-led Lean project. Scope limitation: Viazovska’s original discovery, human library development and agent formalization receive separate attribution.

Evidence

Assessment uses the catalogue-linked source evidence for the stated contribution. Viazovska’s original discovery, human library development and agent formalization receive separate attribution.

Contributors

• Sidharth Hariharan · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• Christopher Birkbeck · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• Seewoo Lee · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• Ho Kiu Gareth Ma · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• Bhavik Mehta · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• Auguste Poiroux · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• Maryna Viazovska · SCIENCE: Named source contributor; exact labor shares are not measured.
• The systems documented in the research record · EXECUTION: Source-reported system assistance within this scope; no provider attestation or independent agency is inferred.

• Hariharan et al., A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8 (2026)

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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