Princeton University, a café in a corner of the campus.

The bright-headed old man sat in the corner, sipping coffee and looking at the paper in his hand.

Sitting across from him was Edward Witten, who was also enjoying afternoon tea.

Looking at the paper in the old friend's hand, the old gentleman asked with a smile.

"What are you looking at?"

"An interesting paper submission," Professor Deligne said, turning the page and casually, "about the Polygnac conjecture." ”

After a pause, he couldn't help but add in an approving tone, "Interesting proof method." ”

Edward Witten: "Land boats? ”

"Yes," he marked the paper with a ballpoint pen, and Deligne continued in a casual tone, "to miss that academic presentation is definitely your biggest loss of the year." ”

Witten smiled and said, "Haha, I agree with your point of view, especially after meeting me, the regret in my heart is even stronger." ”

Deligne looked up at him in surprise: "Oh? When did you go to the other side of the Pacific? ”

Witten: "It's the other side of the Atlantic, and you forgot I just came back from there?" ”

Deligne raised his eyebrows and asked, "You met that kid at CERN?" ”

Witten smiled and said, "Haven't you been watching the news lately?" ”

Deligne shook his head without thinking: "I haven't paid attention to it, is there anything new?" ”

Witten: "The LHCb international cooperation group announced the discovery of five gram particles, and found a characteristic peak of suspected supersymmetric particle signals at 750 GeV. ”

"Oh, congratulations, you're one step closer to the Nobel Prize." Deligne said casually.

To put it simply, supersymmetry theory deals with a symmetry between fermions and bosons, which can be seen as a low-energy scaled inference of superstring theory to some extent.

If superstring theory is true, then supersymmetric particles must exist.

So on the flip side, if supersymmetric particles are discovered, it can provide strong experimental evidence for superstring theory (not proof!). ）。

But if it can't be found, the superstring theory, which has been developed for nearly 30 years, will be at an impasse.

However, Déligne was not particularly interested in the world of physics, and although many of his and his late teacher's research work was prominent in the field of physics, his field of focus was pure mathematics.

Especially number theory, as well as algebraic geometry.

"It's too early to congratulate me," Witten said with a smile and a joking tone, "I think my Nobel Prize has to be ranked behind Stephen Hawking...... I probably don't have much of a chance in this life. ”

In order to win the Gunpowder Award, it must be a theory that has been proven experimentally, and finding the string that makes up the universe is much more difficult than making a black hole to prove the theory of black hole evaporation.

The latter is theoretically possible, with only a large enough collision energy to create a black hole on a tiny scale, and improved observation equipment to observe the black hole that evaporates at the speed of light.

But the former is not something that can be solved by the hadron collider rising a few energy levels, but it requires the minimum observation scale of human civilization, going down to two levels - to observe things at the one-dimensional level.

With the current technical means, the delusion of completely proving the superstring theory is as whimsical as the ancients who wanted to land on the moon by planting firecrackers under their stools.

Hearing this self-deprecation from his old friend, Deligne smiled faintly and said casually: "He was also listening to the report at that time?" ”

Witten smiled and said, "It's not to listen to the report, it's to make a report on the stage." Can you believe that the clue of 750GeV was actually made by an intern at a report meeting. He used the method of probability to calculate the probability of a characteristic peak in the 750 GeV energy region, and guess what happened? CERN researchers have been experimenting for a month, and they have found this characteristic peak on the Hadron Collider detectors. ”

Deligne, who had been staring at the paper, was slightly stunned, and after a long while, he said in a slightly surprised tone: "...... I didn't expect him to have this kind of talent in physics. ”

"Yes," said Mr. Witten, nodding approvingly, "I heard that he will be coming to Princeton next year, and I intend to take him as a student." ”

Deligne grinned: "...... It depends on his own choice, and I personally think that his talent in number theory is still better. ”

Edward Witten smiled and did not speak.

No one wants to be stupid.

The reverse is also true.

At this moment, Professor Deligne, who had turned the paper to the last page, suddenly twitched his brow violently.

Witten asked with interest, "What's wrong?" ”

Deligne shook his head, his expression returning to natural.

"Nothing."

He just praised the ingenious use of the group theory method in the paper, and studied the "group construction method" mentioned in it, but when he saw the last line, the kid naughtily left a sentence that was not enough to write.

If it weren't for the fact that this paper was really well written, he would definitely have sent it back and asked this kid to rewrite it.

……

It takes a certain amount of time to prove a major conjecture, and it takes a considerable amount of time to verify its correctness.

Lu Zhou didn't know how long this time was, and the only hope was that the reviewers would move faster, preferably before the year passed.

The proof of Polignac's conjecture came to an end, and Lu Zhou devoted all his energy to Mr. Frank's subject for the rest of the day.

Mr. Frank always exchanged supersymmetric supplementary theories with him by email from time to time, and although Lu Zhou had doubts about this theory, he still put the controversy aside for the time being in the spirit of seeking common ground while reserving differences.

There's no way, it's okay for him to find fault from a mathematical point of view, but it's not enough to build a set of theories on his own, with his current level.

The main part of this supersymmetry supplement theory was mainly done by Mr. Frank, and he was responsible for processing the data, and at the same time repairing the mathematical loopholes of the theory from a mathematical point of view, making it look more mathematically aesthetic.

Don't underestimate this work, it's important.

The reason why string theory is accepted by people is precisely because of its mathematical beauty, which is really impeccable.

The time soon came in October, and Academician Lu called Lu Zhou to the office.

"Let's go to Beijing on the 20th, I've already booked a ticket for you, you pay attention to the next time."

"Okay...... Professor, can you tell us what we're doing? Lu Zhou finally couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and asked.

Academician Lu smiled, unexpectedly did not sell it, and said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's the 12th National Congress of the Chinese Mathematical Society, which happens to be the 80th anniversary of its founding. It just so happens that Old Man Qiu also came to participate, so I'll take you over to have a good time. ”

it?

Is this called nothing?

That's a big deal!

But Lu Zhou's strange thing is that this conference is usually held in November? How did it advance to the end of October? And you're a physics student, so why is it related to a mathematics conference?

But these are not the point, the point is that Lu Zhou remembers that to participate in this kind of meeting, you need an invitation letter.

In the end, Lu Zhou still asked this doubt: "Can I go in without an invitation?" ”

"The invitation is here, you don't have to worry about this, just follow me, it's a good thing for you." Academician Lu smiled and waved his hand, and continued, "By the way, I remember that when you applied for Wanqing, the topic you applied for was the Polygnac conjecture, do you have any new research results recently?" If so, I suggest you apply to come on stage and give a presentation, which is a good opportunity. ”

Although Academician Lu himself is engaged in theoretical physics, he is no stranger to things in the mathematical community because he always has to deal with people in the mathematical community.

But at this moment, he didn't know that the proof paper of the Polliniac conjecture had been submitted to the Annals of Mathematics by this kid, and now it had even entered the peer review process.

Papers that have been submitted to journals and have not made more novel research results on this basis cannot be submitted to the academic conference unchanged, because this is considered multiple submissions.

Lu Zhou thought about it carefully, except for the Polliniac conjecture, he really didn't seem to have any interesting research results recently.

However, the "group construction method" he created when studying the Polygnac conjecture seems to be able to be displayed as a research result when pulled out alone.

Just compile this theory of "group construction method" into a paper and submit it to this academic conference!

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou had an idea in his heart, looked at Academician Lu and smiled, and said seriously: "I will prepare well." ”

Academician Lu smiled and nodded: "That's okay, you can go back and prepare well." By the way, the submission deadline seems to be next Friday, so if you try to hurry, I won't delay you. ”

Lu Zhou: "......??? ”

Hold the grass!

And you're only telling me now?!

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