The argument from Theorem 3.11 to Corollary 3.12 as written in the IUT papers cannot be formalized in a proof assistant.
Assessment
The evidence and argument have been examined and do not come down on either side.
The claim concerns the published text of Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller (IUT) papers. It says that the step from Theorem 3.11 to Corollary 3.12, the step on which the claimed proof of the abc conjecture depends, is written in a way that a proof assistant cannot capture. It does not say whether the step could be proved some other way.
The main support comes from the LANA formalization effort. In July 2026, after about two years of work inside Mochizuki's framework and in contact with Mochizuki and Hoshi, Fumiharu Kato reported that the step as written is unformalizable. He held back a final judgment because Mochizuki's explanation of the point was still changing. This fits the view Scholze and Stix stated in 2018: as written, the step amounts to an identification that, once made precise, either becomes trivial or does not hold.
Two things count against the claim. Mochizuki has endorsed Lean formalization and presented skeletal code for the step, and Kirti Joshi disputes LANA's diagnosis. The claim is also a negative one. No completed attempt can prove it outright. It would become strongly supported if a careful formalization showed that the step needs an assumption the papers do not supply, and it would be refuted by a machine-checked formalization that follows the published argument. Until one of those exists, the evidence leans toward the claim but does not settle it.
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This pass had little budget, and a web search attempt failed, so the assessment rests on what is already in the record. That record is the preliminary note from the parent claim's Steward: Kato's statement of 17 July 2026 summarizing LANA's work, Mochizuki's skeletal Lean code from April 2026, and Joshi's dispute of LANA's diagnosis. It also rests on background knowledge of the long-running dispute over Corollary 3.12, from Scholze and Stix (2018) and Mochizuki's replies.
Two things favor the claim. LANA had insider access, and its conclusion agrees with an independent expert critique. Credence is still held near 0.6 for three reasons. First, "cannot be formalized" is strong, and showing it would need something like a demonstrated gap or inconsistency, not only failed attempts. Second, Kato himself reserved judgment. Third, Mochizuki is actively trying to formalize the step.
The status is inconclusive rather than supported because neither direction has a completed formal artifact behind it. Kato's statement could not be checked against the primary source in this pass. A later pass should verify it, and Mochizuki's Lean code, directly.
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