Chapter 935 Is It Right? (1/4)

Chapter 935 Is it right? (14)

After so many years in academia, Lu Zhou heard for the first time that a journal editor suggested to the contributors to split a paper into two and publish it.

In most cases, the academic editors of the journals dislike the contributors for being too watery, split a topic into two parts or even several parts for publication, and then cite their own papers to increase the number of citations, so they type the papers back and ask the contributors to rewrite them .

This kind of dislike of the contributor's paper has too much information, and the contributor is sent back to submit two papers separately...

It's been a long time.

"The first part of the corollary is one of the core issues in the discussion of manifold classification in differential topology..." Staring at the email and studying it repeatedly, Lu Zhou touched his chin, "Sullivan's conjecture? What the hell, what do I hear?" Never heard of it."

With a mutter, he kicked the suitcase aside, got up, walked out of the cloakroom, and walked quickly upstairs.

Sitting in front of the computer, he opened the database and searched for relevant entries, and soon something that surprised Lu Zhou happened.

I saw the retrieved papers line by line flying in front of him like snowflakes.

I don't know if I don't check.

This search did not expect that this proposition is quite popular.

However, the authors of the papers with the highest number of citations are not very familiar. I think this Sullivan conjecture should be a proposition that is not highly related to other disciplines, but it is more important in this research branch.

It's like the twin prime conjecture.

Not engaged in additive number theory, generally no one will study this ghost thing.

"...Mom, I said why is this thing so difficult, I have been thinking about it all day! So it is really a mathematical conjecture?!"

In short, his paper in the Annals of Mathematics, in which the discussion of Corollary 1 is seven and a half pages long, is in fact an equivalent of the smooth complex complete Sullivan conjecture. The price form is proved.

This conjecture is about the problem of smooth popular classification, and it has a history of more than half a century since it was put forward.

And the classification problem of smooth manifolds is one of the core problems in differential topology!

This also means that the problem he unintentionally solved has actually troubled the world of differential topology for half a century...

After reading the retrieved documents, Lu Zhou was filled with emotion.

On the one hand, it is natural to feel that he is awesome, and on the other hand, he also feels that the Professor Chen he dug has something.

The association generated when studying the hyperelliptic curve analysis method unexpectedly collided with the classical proposition in the branch of mathematics of differential topology.

"Anyway... If Sullivan's conjecture is true, then the hyperelliptic curve analysis method will be able to introduce the method of differential manifolds."

"If this step can go through, I feel that the end of Riemann's conjecture is one step closer to me."

"I just don't know how many steps are left..."

Looking at the paper on the computer screen, Lu Zhou opened the original paper and rearranged the content.

This work is actually very simple. It is just to extract the inference 1 in the original paper with a few lines of abstracts, and submit it as an independent paper.

As for the title of the paper, Professor Frakes had thought it out for him.

Namely, "A Proof of Sullivan's Conjecture on Smooth Complex Perfect Intersections".

As for the original paper, he just added a line of citation to the citation, and then directly used the proposition he proved himself as a theorem in the paper.

After spending about ten minutes to complete the work, Lu Zhou repackaged the paper and delivered it to Professor Frakes' mailbox.

After finishing these things, when Lu Zhou was about to send an email to tell Professor Chen Yang about this interesting thing, he suddenly remembered that when he was delivering the paper, he had posted the preprint of the paper to on Arxiv.

Although he seldom revises manuscripts, according to the practice in the academic world, since the papers have been revised according to the opinions of academic editors or reviewers, the preprints on Arxiv will naturally be updated simultaneously.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou immediately logged on to his account on Arxiv. However, just as he was about to delete the original preprint and update it into two split papers, it was replaced by the original paper. The number of downloads is shocking.

22,000 downloads!

"Fuck, it's only been two days, is the download volume so high?!"

Generally speaking, even if it is a relatively popular research direction, it can be said that it is not easy for a preprint to have hundreds of downloads after uploading.

The number of downloads that can exceed 10,000 is often those papers that have been hung up for a long time, and it must be a relatively popular research direction to be possible.

Differential topology itself is not a particularly popular branch of mathematics, especially in the field of manifold classification. It is hard to say whether there are 20,000 scholars in this direction in the world, let alone tracked this label on Arxiv people.

Therefore, this number of downloads is really too weird.

There is only one possibility.

That is his paper, within a certain range, caused a considerable topic.

Moreover, the popularity of this topic has become so great that scholars who study other fields have all cast curious eyes on him...

Suddenly, Lu Zhou seemed to realize something, so he immediately logged into his account on the mathoverflow forum.

Just as he expected, on this world-renowned mathematics industry forum, the topic of his paper has almost occupied the homepage of the instant discussion section...

[Surprised, has anyone read the latest paper that Professor Lu submitted? 】

[I just finished reading it, it seems to be a supplement to the hyperelliptic curve analysis method... Is there anything special about it? 】

[The key is not the proposition discussed in the paper itself! But Corollary One in that paper! If you don't do differential topology, you may not know that that thing is actually another form of expression of Sullivan's conjecture! I suddenly found out after looking for a long time! 】

[My brother when I was studying for a master's degree was studying differential topology, and it is said that he and his mentor are now working on the problem of differential manifold classification. I just took that paper and asked him how he felt. He only told me that he was awesome, and then he was autistic. How can I persuade him to open up and wait online? It’s very urgent... 】

[As expected of Professor Lu, he can come up with such amazing research results by doing whatever he wants. 】

[I feel that I have learned differential manifolds for more than ten years for nothing... (cries bitterly)]

[I happen to be short of a topic for tomorrow's discussion class, so I will borrow this preprint and use it: P]

After browsing these posts to the end, Lu Zhou, who finally solved the case, couldn't help sighing.

"These people are really idle."

If you have this time, you might as well pick some interesting questions to study.

Isn't that just solving a conjecture?

fuss all day...

Shaking his head, Lu Zhou closed the browser, closed the laptop, and put the matter and the submitted papers aside.

"Annals of Mathematics" will contact him with a reviewer with sufficient qualifications to complete the peer review process.

And the next thing he needs to do is to prepare for the upcoming trip to Shanghai...