If it were phrased as "discovered a mathematical solution in string theory that would, if confirmed, represent a topological soliton" that would strike me as mo

If it were phrased as "discovered a mathematical solution in string theory that would, if confirmed, represent a topological soliton" that would strike me as more accurate. But this is the reason I stated up front that I'm a layperson: I can certainly imagine that within the community there are conventional uses of language that differ from a layperson's use. That's certainly the case in my own. But the way it is phrased appears, to a layperson, to indicate that the thing has been found to exist.