Proven to be?

Lu Zhou glanced at the screen with some surprise and put down the coffee cup in his hand.

"Are you sure it's a claim proof? Instead of providing a possible line of thought for proof? ”

"Yes...... The author of the paper claims to have solved the mass gap problem of the Young Mills equation, and the claimant is not small," his eyes swept over the author's information, and Luo Wenxuan continued in a tone of disbelief, "Brian Caro, a professor at the University of Oxford, a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the European Academy of Sciences, has participated in the research related to the discovery of the Higgs particle, and has received five honors, including the Newton Medal from the British Physical Society...... Incredibly, he's sixty years old this year. ”

Sixty years old is not the golden age for studying physics, but it is not the age of memory loss. However, even so, it is not easy to make such achievements at this age.

However, perhaps because Lu Zhou did not know much about the theoretical physics community, he had not heard of Professor Brian Caro.

Listening to Senior Brother Luo finish reading his resume, Lu Zhou paused and continued to ask.

"The paper has been released in preprint? Or is it just a summary? ”

Luo Wenxuan clicked the mouse twice: "The preprint has been released." ”

Although this situation is relatively rare in the mathematical community, it is not uncommon in the physical community. Especially in the field of theoretical physics, for the study of some major propositions, even many professors with very old qualifications like to hang a preprint first to occupy the pit, so as to prevent scholars in the same field from taking the lead.

After all, it's a field that is so hard to produce results that one step slower than others can lead to years of hard work being wasted.

Lu Zhou said with interest: "Print a copy for me." ”

"Okay...... Speaking of which, I don't understand why you like to type papers on paper. Aren't e-readers very convenient now? ”

"There's no particular reason for it, it's just that I like papers that I can read."

Although Lu Zhou occasionally scrolls through literature on his mobile phone, it is all when it is inconvenient.

If he could sit on a couch in the library or read at a desk in his study, he would naturally prefer to print his papers on paper. First, it is convenient for him to take some notes, and secondly, it is convenient for him to write down the inspiration that suddenly flashes in his mind.

The printer is buzzing.

By printing the paper, Luo Wenxuan, who was staring at the paper on the screen, suddenly said something abruptly.

"What if he's right?"

Hearing this, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned and looked at him a little strangely.

"That's right, that's right, what's wrong with that?"

Luo Wenxuan also looked at him strangely, incredulous.

"Don't you feel sorry?"

Lu Zhou: "What's there to regret about this?" ”

Luo Wenxuan made a helpless expression: "Please, we have been studying for so long, and now we are only short of the last point but someone else has taken the lead, don't you feel it at all." ”

Lu Zhou said indifferently: "There is nothing to regret about this, no matter who solves this problem, it is the same for me." ”

The Fields Medal and the Nobel Prize have been won, and Lu Zhou actually doesn't have much pursuit of personal honors, and the reason why he studied these questions is just to get an answer. If someone is inspired by his research and successfully solves the problem of quality gaps, it is more gratifying for him than if he solved the problem himself.

Seeing Lu Zhou's indifferent appearance, Luo Wenxuan opened his mouth and finally sighed.

"Okay...... I'm not up to you. ”

Lu Zhou said casually: "There will be that day." ”

……

In a minute or two, the twenty-page paper was printed on paper.

As a preprint of an unofficial publication, judging from the thickness of the content of the paper, this paper can be said to be written with sincerity.

At least in terms of format, it has met the format requirements of general medium-length journals, and the argumentation part of the main text is quite clear, and there are not a dozen or so loopholes that can be found at a glance like those preprints that are just hung on the Internet just to occupy the pit.

After printing out the paper, Lu Zhou found a sofa in Senior Brother Luo's office and sat down, combined with the abstract of the paper, and quickly went through the main part.

Overall, Professor Brian Caro's abilities are not bad, both mathematically and physically. Although there is still a certain gap with some of the top scholars he knows, at least his ability and fame are commensurate.

And what surprised Lu Zhou the most was that the method adopted by Professor Brian Caro was similar to the idea he and Brother Luo had chosen, which was based on Professor Jaffe's paper published in the Annals of Mathematics, which explained the existence of a mass gap by studying particles with mass m.

However, when it comes to how to study this particle with mass m, there is a difference in the thinking of the two sides.

Rather than introducing a quantum field corresponding to the classical forces in the aforementioned problem, the quantum Young Mills field, Brian Caro is thinking about solving this problem, but rather using a similar approach to Weinberg by introducing a scalar field on a spatiotemporal manifold.

Regardless of the debatable points in the paper, at least in Lu Zhou's opinion, it is very unrigorous.

After all, the problem of zero quality of strong interaction cannot be solved simply by the method of "symmetry breaking".

"His proof was close to the truth, but in the end it was a missed point." Putting down the paper in his hand, Lu Zhou touched the coffee in his hand, but found that the cup was already cold, so he got up and walked to the side of the water dispenser, ready to make a new cup.

As soon as he heard what Lu Zhou said, Luo Wenxuan immediately raised his head and said with a radiant expression.

"So he's wrong?"

Don't gloat, his paper still has merit, such as the part that discusses the existence of the four-dimensional gauge field from the point of view of the lattice point, and the path integral that gives a good definition of the partial gauge invariant effect in the torus Euclid...... Of course, he has a lot of problems. ”

Luo Wenxuan: "For example? ”

"For example, while discussing this problem from the perspective of the normalization of lattice points, he did not prove that the step size of lattice points tends to the zero time limit, so the method of defining the canonical invariant action in torus Euclid space-time is not rigorous or even wrong."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhou, who had re-brewed a cup of coffee, blew along the rim of the cup, took a sip, paused for a few seconds and continued, "But I'm not sure if it's because this is a preprint, maybe he has thought of a good way to prove it, but he didn't post it here." ”

This is also very common.

After all, many of the high-quality papers on Arxiv have been perfected through constant discussion and revision.

Luo Wenxuan: "So he didn't prove it?" ”

"So far, that's the case. No matter what others think, at least in my opinion, he didn't succeed. Speaking of this, Lu Zhou sighed, his tone slightly disappointed.

He had thought that Professor Bryan would be able to see things differently, but he didn't expect him to make the same mistake that almost everyone would make.

Sure enough, to solve this problem, you still have to rely on yourself.