Problem #4
Stable Forking Conjecture
The Stable Forking Conjecture states that if is a simple theory then forking is always witnessed by stable formulas. In particular, if forks over then there is a stable formula such that and forks over .
Claimed Proofs
Freitag and Mutchnik have posted a purported counterexample found by ChatGPT 5.6 Sol. See here.
Reference for the problem statement
[Mut26]Scott Mutchnik, Reducing stable forking dependence to finitely many pregeometries, arXiv preprint, 2026 [link]
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