CHAPTER 477: CHAPTER 154 PAPER PUBLICATION

At the same time, a tea room on the second floor of the hotel. Zhang Yuanling and another academician from Shuangdan University, Shen Chongxing, were receiving several academicians from the School of Mathematics in Beijing.

Although the host of this event is Coastal Jiao Da, Shuangdan University is also in Linhai, so the professors from Shuangdan University can be considered as half hosts.

Moreover, Shen Chongxing graduated from Ke University, both are chief professors at the Coastal Mathematics Center, and have many collaborations with the Hua Science Academy, so naturally, they must entertain the guests.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Zhang Yuanling asked the same question as Yang Yuancheng.

"By the way, I have a question. What’s going on with that report by Qiao Yu from Yanbei University this year? Has his conference paper not been approved yet? I haven’t seen the topic and abstract on the official website."

In fact, he had inquired about it some time ago, but the staff in charge said that it was not a decision by this year’s academic committee of the conference, but was decided by the standing council of the society.

This left him quite puzzled.

Not only has such a situation never occurred before, but even if it had, the report content should have been posted on the official website by the time registration begins today.

Zhang Yuanling’s concern about this issue is somewhat related to Qiao Yu. The project temporarily submitted by Qiao Yu before was reviewed by him.

Although he didn’t intend to directly reject Qiao Yu’s project. He was even prepared to approve it in the afternoon after sufficient discussion.

But who would have thought that Qiao Yu withdrew the submission immediately after hearing some criticism. To be honest, this move was completely unexpected by Zhang Yuanling.

If there was no intention to get approved, it shouldn’t have been submitted with such fanfare at that time.

Overall, the whole thing is baffling. But Zhang Yuanling didn’t dwell on it, as everyone is quite busy.

Being an academician of the School of Mathematics, one must have made contributions. For example, Zhang Yuanling’s biggest achievement so far is proving Lustig’s conjecture on the ring of two-sided cells for the affine A-type Weyl group.

This proposition, which seems like a biological topic, is actually a purely mathematical proposition.

For example, the affine A-type Weyl group is an extension of the Weyl group, adding translational symmetry.

The theory of two-sided cells is a theory and conjecture involving algebraic structures proposed by the mathematician George Lustig.

The former is a tool for studying Hecke algebras and their related representations. It divides elements into specific two-sided equivalence classes, used to reveal the deep structure of the algebra.

The latter involves the combinatorial structure of two-sided cells and the characteristics of the corresponding ring.

This kind of conjecture did not appear in the Millennium Prize Problems, nor is it as renowned as the Riemann Conjecture or the Twin Prime Conjecture, so non-mathematicians probably find it hard to understand its meaning.

Recently, Zhang Yuanling’s research mainly focuses on the affine B-type Weyl group.

Because the B-type Weyl group describes symmetries in odd-dimensional orthogonal Lie algebras and related algebraic groups, and unlike A-type, it also includes stacks of reflections and translations, reflecting a more complex root system structure.

This leads to a much more complex number and relationship of cells in B-type compared to A-type, naturally making the arrangement, structure, and definition of the ring more intricate.

This also increases the difficulty of research, the complexity is higher, and although there has been some progress, there is still a long way to go to fully resolve the ring problem.

The team led by Zhang Yuanling has also been studying this issue, and there has recently been a small breakthrough. Although it is not completely resolved, it is enough to publish some papers in top journals.

So concerning Qiao Yu’s matter, Zhang Yuanling doesn’t have the energy to delve deeply. No choice, since such frontier mathematical problems require some in-depth communication with reviewers.

Especially to make the paper flawless, there is a lot of work to do. Also, solving problems as a team, some internal issues need to be handled as well...

Overall, it’s quite energy-consuming.

But today, everyone happened to be together, so Zhang Yuanling just asked the question.

"This matter... didn’t the council inform you?" Pan Yuedong casually asked.

Well, he actually attended the meeting at Qiuzhai, so he naturally knows what’s going on.

But how to say... after the meeting, Yuan Zhengxin said, "This matter shouldn’t be disclosed to the public first." So nobody informed here...

As for what Elder Yuan thinks, others actually understand as well. It’s nothing more than having some unhappiness about a few matters.

But Elder Yuan’s face ultimately has to be given. After all, Elder Yuan founded several mathematics centers, his contributions to Huaxia’s mathematics community are unanimously recognized.

Moreover, if you really want to say, Elder Yuan’s relationship with Shuangdan is actually quite good.

For example, the Linhai Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Research Institute was unveiled by Elder Yuan personally. This research institute has deep ties with Shuangdan University.

It can only be said that indeed certain relationships have different proximities.

After hearing Pan Yuedong’s words, Zhang Yuanling sensed some subtlety, instinctively glancing at Professor Shen next to him. After exchanging a glance, Zhang Yuanling smiled and said, "Really no, maybe it was forgotten?"

Pan Yuedong nodded and said, "Oh, that’s possible. After all, it’s near the end of the year, everyone is quite busy. The situation is like this, Qiao Yu’s report paper is ’Proof of the Infinitude of Prime Numbers with a Gap of 6.’

This paper uses the content of his latest research on the axiomatic system of generalized modal number theory. But this paper is expected to be officially published on the Ann. Math website tomorrow.