Princeton University, a cafe in the corner of the campus.
The bald old man sat in the corner, drinking coffee while reading the thesis in his hand.
Sitting across from him was Edward Witten, who was also enjoying his afternoon tea.
The old man looked at his old friend's thesis and smiled.
"What are you reading?"
"An interesting thesis," said Professor Deligné. He flipped a page and said, "It's about the Polignac's conjecture."
After a pause, he couldn't help but add in an approving tone, "Very interesting proof."
Edward Witten: "Lu Zhou?"
"Yeah," said Deligné as he made a few marks on the thesis. He then said, "Missing that academic report is definitely your biggest loss this year."
Witten smiled and said, "Haha, I agree with your point of view. Especially after seeing him in person, the regret in my heart is even stronger."
Deligné looked up at him and said, "Oh? When did you go across the Pacific Ocean? "
Witten: "It's across the Atlantic Ocean. Did you forget that I just came back from there?"
Deligné raised his eyebrows and asked, "You met that kid at CERN?"
Witten smiled and said, "Haven't you seen the news recently?"
Deligné shook his head and said, "I haven't. What's new?"
Witten: "The LHCb International Cooperation Group announced the discovery of five grams of particles. They also found a characteristic peak at 750 GeV, which is suspected to be a supersymmetric particle signal."
"Oh, congratulations, you're one step closer to the Nobel Prize," said Deligné casually.
Simply put, supersymmetry was a symmetry between fermions and bosons. To some extent, it could be seen as a low-energy corollary of superstring theory.
If superstring theory was true, then supersymmetric particles had to exist.
Therefore, if supersymmetric particles were found, then it could provide strong experimental evidence for superstring theory (not proof!).
However, if they could not find it, the superstring theory, which had been developed for nearly 30 years, would come to an impasse.
However, Deligné wasn't particularly concerned about the physics world. Although he and his late teacher had many outstanding research results in the physics world, his focus was still on pure mathematics.
Especially number theory and algebraic geometry.
"It's too early to congratulate me." Witten smiled and said in a joking tone, "I think my Nobel Prize is behind Stephen Hawking's … I probably won't get it in my lifetime."
In order to win the Gunpowder Prize, the theory had to be proven by experiments, and finding the string that formed the universe was much more difficult than creating a black hole to prove the theory of black hole evaporation.
The latter was theoretically achievable as long as the collision energy was large enough to create a black hole on a microscopic scale and improve the observation equipment to observe the black hole evaporating at the speed of light.
However, the former was not something that could be solved by increasing the energy level of the Hadron Collider. It required the smallest observation scale of human civilization to go down two levels — to observe things on the one-dimensional level.
Trying to completely prove the superstring theory with current technology was like trying to fly to the moon with a firecracker under a chair in the past.
When Deligné heard his old friend's self-deprecating words, he smiled and said, "He was also at the report?"
Witten smiled and said, "He wasn't at the report, he was at the report. Can you believe that the 750 GeV clue was proposed by an intern at the report? He used a probability method to calculate the probability of a characteristic peak appearing in the 750 GeV energy zone. Then guess what happened? CERN researchers did a month of experiments and found this characteristic peak on the two detectors of the Hadron Collider. "
Deligné, who was staring at the thesis, was stunned. After a while, he said in a surprised tone, "I didn't expect him to be so talented in physics."
"Yeah," Witten nodded and said, "I heard that he's coming to Princeton next year. I plan on taking him as a student."
Deligné smirked and said, "That depends on his choice. I personally think that he's more talented in number theory."
Edward Witten smiled and did not say anything.
No one wanted to teach an idiot.
This problem was the same the other way around.
Suddenly, Professor Deligne's eyebrows twitched as he flipped through the last page of the thesis.
Witten asked, "What's wrong?"
Deligné shook his head and his expression returned to normal.
"Nothing."
He was admiring the ingenious use of the group theory method in the thesis and was researching the "Group Structure Method". However, when he read the last line, Lu Zhou mischievously said that he didn't have enough space to write it down.
If it wasn't for the fact that the thesis was well-written, he would have definitely asked Lu Zhou to rewrite it.
…
It took a certain amount of time to prove a major conjecture, but it also took a lot of time to verify its correctness.
Lu Zhou did not know how long it would take. He only hoped that the reviewer would be faster. It would be best if the reviewer could finish the thesis before the end of the year.
The proof of the Polignac's conjecture came to an end. Lu Zhou spent the rest of his time on Frank's research project.
Frank always talked to him about the supersymmetry theory through email from time to time. Even though Lu Zhou had doubts about this theory, he decided to put aside the debate for the time being.
It couldn't be helped. He could find faults from a mathematical perspective, but he was not good enough to build his own theory.
The main part of this supersymmetric supplementary theory was mainly completed by Mr. Frank. He was responsible for processing the data and fixing the mathematical loopholes in the theory from a mathematical point of view, making it more mathematically beautiful.
Don't underestimate this job. It's very important.
The reason why string theory was accepted by people was because of its mathematical beauty, which was impeccable.
Soon, it was October. Professor Lu called Lu Zhou to his office.
"We're going to Beijing on the 20th. I've already booked a ticket for you. Pay attention to the schedule."
"Okay … Professor, can you tell me what we're going to do?" asked Lu Zhou. He could not hold back his curiosity.
Professor Lu smiled and said, "Actually, it's nothing much. It's just that the 12th National Conference of the China Mathematics Society is also its 80th anniversary. A few old guys proposed to hold a special commemorative conference. Fortunately, both conferences will be held at the same time. Old Qiu is also coming, so I'll bring you along. "
The f * ck?
This is nothing much?
This is a big deal!
However, Lu Zhou was curious. Isn't this conference usually held in November? Why is it held at the end of October? Also, you're in physics. How did you get involved with a mathematics conference?
However, this was not the point. The point was that Lu Zhou remembered that he needed an invitation to attend this conference.
Finally, Lu Zhou asked, "Can I go without an invitation?"
"The invitation is with me. Don't worry about it. Just follow me. It's a good thing for you." Professor Lu smiled and waved his hand. He then said, "Oh yeah, I remember you applied for Polignac's conjecture. Do you have any new research results recently? If so, I suggest you apply to give a report. This is a good opportunity. "
Giving a report at a top domestic academic conference was very helpful for a scholar's academic reputation in China. Although Academician Lu was in theoretical physics, he had to deal with people in the mathematics world, so he was familiar with the mathematics world.
However, he did not know that the proof of Polignac's conjecture had already been submitted to Annual Mathematics by Lu Zhou. It had even entered the peer review stage.
A thesis that had already been submitted to a journal could not be submitted to an academic conference without new research results. This was because it would be considered as submitting more than one manuscript.
Lu Zhou thought about it carefully. Other than Polignac's conjecture, he did not have any interesting research results recently.
However, the "Group Structure Method" that he created when he was researching Polignac's conjecture could be used as a research result.
I might as well compile this "Group Structure Method" into a thesis and submit it to this conference!
Lu Zhou had an idea. He looked at Professor Lu and smiled as he said in a serious manner, "I'll prepare well."
Professor Lu smiled and said, "Okay then, go back and prepare well. Oh yeah, the deadline for submission is next Friday. Hurry up, I won't waste your time. "
Lu Zhou: "…???"
F * ck me!
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