After so many years in the academic world, it was the first time that Lu Zhou had heard of a journal editor suggesting to a contributor that a paper be split into two for publication.

In most cases, the academic editor of the journal dislikes the contributor for being too watery, splitting a topic into two parts or even several parts for publication, and then citing his own paper to brush up the number of citations, so he sends the paper back for the contributor to rewrite.

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

It's been a long time.

"The first part of the inference is one of the core issues in differential topology to discuss manifold classification......" staring at the email and studying it repeatedly, Lu Zhou touched his chin, "Sullivan's conjecture? What the hell, I've never heard of it. ”

Muttering, he kicked his suitcase aside, got up and walked out of the cloakroom, and walked briskly upstairs.

Sitting in front of the computer, he opened the database and retrieved the relevant entries, and soon something surprising to Lu Zhou happened.

I saw that the rows of retrieved papers flew in front of him like snowflakes.

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

Unexpectedly, this proposition is quite popular.

However, looking at the authors of the most cited papers, they are not very familiar, and I think this Sullivan conjecture should be a proposition that is not highly related to other disciplines, but is more important in this branch of research.

It's like a twin prime conjecture.

It's not additive number theory, and no one usually studies this.

“…… Mom, I said why is this thing so hard, I thought about it all day! It turns out to be really a mathematical conjecture?! ”

In short, the seven-and-a-half-page paper he submitted in the Annals of Mathematics, in which the discussion of Corollary 1 was seven-and-a-half-page long, was in fact a proof of an equivalent form of the smooth complex complete intersection of Sullivan's conjecture.

This conjecture is about the question of smooth popular classification, which has been proposed for more than half a century.

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

This means that the problem he inadvertently solved has in fact puzzled the differential topology community for more than half a century......

After reading the retrieved literature, Lu Zhou was full of emotion in his heart.

On the one hand, he naturally sighed at his own awesomeness, and on the other hand, he also felt that there was something about Professor Chen who he had dug up.

The association that arose when studying the hyperelliptic curve analysis method actually collided with the classic proposition in the branch of mathematics of differential topology.

"Anyway...... If Sullivan's conjecture is true, then the hyper-elliptic curve analysis will introduce the method of differential manifolds. ”

"If this step can be passed, it feels like the end of the Riemann conjecture is one step closer to me."

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

Sighing at the paper on the computer screen, Lu Zhou opened the original paper and reformatted the content.

This work is actually very simple, just take the inference 1 from the original paper and attach a few lines of abstract to submit it as an independent paper.

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

Namely, "Proof of the Sullivan's Conjecture on Smooth Complex Completeness".

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

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

After doing these things, just as Lu Zhou was about to send an email to tell Professor Chen Yang about this interesting story, he suddenly remembered that when he submitted the paper, he had hung the preprint of the paper on Arxiv.

Although he rarely revises the manuscript, it is common practice in the academic community that since the paper has been revised based on the input of the academic editor or reviewer, it is only natural that the preprint on Arxiv should be updated at the same time.

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

22,000 downloads!

"Damn, it's only been two days of work, is the number of downloads so high?!"

Generally speaking, even if it is a popular research direction, it is not easy for a preprint to be downloaded hundreds of times after uploading.

The number of downloads that can exceed 10,000 is often those papers that have been hanging for a long time, and they have to be the more popular research direction to be possible.

Differential topology itself is not a particularly popular branch of mathematics, especially in the field of manifold classification, and it is difficult to say whether there are 20,000 scholars in the world who have studied this direction, let alone those who have followed this label on Arxiv.

Therefore, the number of downloads is really weird.

There is only one possibility.

That is, this paper of his, which, within a certain range, caused quite a lot of conversation.

And the heat of this topic has been so great that scholars who study other directions have cast curious glances on his side......

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

As he expected, the topic of his paper has almost occupied the homepage of the instant discussion section at the world-renowned forum for mathematics industry insiders......

[Surprised, has anyone read Professor Lu's latest paper?] 】

[I've just finished reading it, and 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!] It's the corollary one in that paper! If you're not a differentiator topology, you probably don't know that that thing is actually another formulation of Sullivan's conjecture! I suddenly found out after watching it for a long time! 】

[My brother when I was a master's student studied differential topology, and it is said that he and his mentor are now working on the problem of differential manifold classification. I just took the paper and asked him how he felt, he only said a word to me, and then the whole person was autistic, how can I persuade him now to want to open a point, wait online, it's very urgent......]

[It is worthy of Professor Lu, who can make such a hanging research result by doing anything special. 】

[I feel like I've been learning differential manifolds for more than ten years...... (weeping)】

[It just so happens that I still lack a topic for tomorrow's discussion class, so I will borrow this preprint and use it well :P]

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

"These people are really idle."

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

Isn't it just a solution to a conjecture?

Fuss all day......

Shaking his head, Lu Zhou closed the browser, closed his laptop, and threw the matter aside along with the paper that had already been submitted.

The Annals of Mathematics will connect him with a qualified reviewer to complete the peer review process.

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