GPT-5.2 Derives a New Result in Theoretical Physics
A new preprint by collaborators from the Institute for Advanced Study, Vanderbilt, Cambridge, Harvard, and OpenAI demonstrates that GPT-5.2 derived a novel result in theoretical particle physics. The paper shows that “single-minus gluon tree amplitudes” — previously assumed to be zero — are in fact nonzero in a specific kinematic regime called the half-collinear limit. GPT-5.2 Pro simplified complicated expressions for individual cases, spotted a pattern, and conjectured a general formula valid for all n gluons, which a scaffolded version of GPT-5.2 then formally proved over 12 hours of reasoning. The result was independently verified against the Berends-Giele recursion relation and the soft theorem, and has already been extended from gluons to gravitons.