Chapter 265: Chapter 115: Brother Qiao Gets Serious—Simply Terrifying!

Yuan Zhengxin carefully browsed through the questions raised by Qiao Yu and the responses from Pan Jingyuan. When he looked up at his professor, he noticed that Professor Pan’s eyes were very dark today.

Unable to help himself, he smiled slightly and said, “Little Pan, you’ve worked hard.”

Pan Jingyuan gave a bitter smile and said, “Elder Yuan, it really has been tough. I feel I wasn’t even this tired when I was doing my own projects. This kid’s questions are so tricky that I have to think carefully at night before answering them, and he keeps sending more questions. I think if I don’t respond, it might dampen his enthusiasm…”

As he was speaking, his phone started vibrating again, and Pan Jingyuan instinctively picked it up for a look, then immediately grumbled, “Oh boy, here we go again.”

He handed the phone over to the elder for him to take a look.

“In the proof of this part, could the isomorphic relations be very dependent on the specific choice of G? Wouldn’t G also cause some properties of the geometric objects to change, potentially leading to the failure of this isomorphic relation? Hmm… this question?”

The elder looked at Pan Jingyuan and curiously asked, “Is this issue from your paper?”

Pan Jingyuan nodded, took a deep breath, and said, “Yes, the question he asked involves the local system LocSys and the global differential cohesion IndCohNilpglob. The purpose of this part of the proof is to provide a global unification description through the analysis of geometric objects on algebraic curves, by representing the geometric data related to Autonomous Forms.”

The elder continued to ask, “Does his question make sense?”

Pan Jingyuan replied, “It indeed makes sense, but in our proof, we implicitly assumed the global nature of the local system and also indicated situations where it might be invalid, such as in the presence of singular points.”

“Oh.” The elder nodded, somewhat puzzled as well.

He couldn’t comprehend what Qiao Yu was up to.

Previously, he had suggested recommending Qiao Yu into the research group, at least to just experience the atmosphere of cutting-edge research firsthand. However, Qiao Yu had decisively refused. Now, he was eagerly downloading their paper, analyzing it line by line.

Wait a minute…

“He understood it?” The elder suddenly exclaimed, looking at Pan Jingyuan for confirmation.

Pan Jingyuan sighed inwardly, time waits for no man… It took Elder Yuan this long to realize.

So he naturally nodded and replied, “Not only did he understand it, but I also feel he is trying to identify the flaws in the paper. Each question he raises is very targeted, and there were even two questions we hadn’t considered at the time.”

Yuan Zhengxin nodded slightly, thought for a moment, and asked, “What do you think?”

Pan Jingyuan immediately said, “I think we should just have him come to Huaqing for a few days, I’ll make some time to explain things to him in person. This back-and-forth on WeChat is really inefficient.”

Whether it’s for the sake of the elder or Qiao Yu himself, Pan Jingyuan didn’t mind a deeper academic exchange and discussion with Qiao Yu. But being bombarded with questions on WeChat was truly overwhelming.

Anyone would be overwhelmed.

If they were trivial questions, he could just gloss over them, but Qiao Yu’s questions were obviously well-thought-out and straight to the point.

He needed to think carefully before he could answer them.

The result was that Qiao Yu’s last question came in after one o’clock at night, and after answering it, Qiao Yu courteously told him to get some rest and suggested he should rest earlier too.

But anyone who works late at night knows that once the brain is engaged in high-intensity thinking, it’s impossible to fall asleep in bed, and even now, Pan feels a bit drowsy.

Wait a minute…

Suddenly, Pan Jingyuan picked up his phone and carefully reviewed the questions Qiao Yu raised once more, feeling a bit uneasy.

“He might not be available for a while… Hmm? What’s wrong with you?” Yuan Zhengxin suddenly asked.

Instinctively, Pan Jingyuan replied, “I suddenly feel a bit uncertain. When we deduced the global nature, we required that each spine E on the C curve corresponds to a unique representation of Lie Group G. If BunG, meaning the bundle space of G, undergoes any structural changes during the proof, it could indeed lead to the failure of the isomorphic relationships.”

This response made Yuan Zhengxin pause, and he looked at Pan Jingyuan with a deeper gaze, asking, “Wouldn’t this be considered an obvious flaw? Didn’t you thoroughly discuss and self-assess internally before submitting the paper?”

Pan Jingyuan responded, “We did, but it seems no one raised this issue. After all, we conducted extensive local verification work, which took up most of our efforts. And as you know, Professor Schulz was also very satisfied with our conclusions.

Moreover, the paper is over 800 pages long, and BunG is an extremely critical part, occupying many sections of every paper. If we were to verify everything, it would probably take over a year to publish, and it can’t be considered an obvious flaw, can it?”

Yuan Zhengxin nodded. He certainly understood the situation, which was simply a result of ambition taking over.

If the publication of the paper were delayed by more than a year, it definitely wouldn’t make it to next year’s World Mathematicians Conference for discussion.

Five systematic papers, over 800 pages long, represented the cutting-edge of mathematical propositions. It would take the global mathematics community about a year to verify them.

With just one year and four months left until next year’s World Mathematicians Conference, honestly, the time is already extremely tight. This made Yuan Zhengxin unable to even voice any criticism.

Physicists may not care, because the top award, the Nobel Prize, can still be received regardless of age, as long as the person is alive and achieves results. But for mathematicians, once they surpass the age of forty, the chance of receiving the most prestigious awards diminishes.