Multi-Agent Mathematicians in 'the Station' Produced Five Results New to the Literature, Including a 604-Point Kissing Configuration

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Stephen Chung, Wenyu Du and William J. Wesley submitted arXiv 2608.23691 on August 24, describing an open-world environment where agents from different model families pick their own research directions with no central coordinator. Across 12 construction problems the agents produced results novel to existing literature on five of them, including a new infinite family of finite-field Kakeya sets, exact 604-point kissing configurations in dimension 11, improved lower bounds for Erdos's minimum-overlap problem and new infinite families for Book Ramsey numbers. The agents emitted theorems and explanations alongside the numbers, and the authors are releasing all agent dialogues, proofs and verification code.