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by dontcontactme 1399 days ago
It's difficult to trust self-published, non-peer reviewed papers on arxiv. You can just as easily find papers claiming P=/=NP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09269

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Not just that, but this paticulary problem is also famous for crazy people claiming they have a proof. Until some mathmatician agrees with the proof (or even just indicates it is interesting), this is a non story.
Yeah. The "proof" of theorem 2 being just a handwavy do the first proof again, but use Q_2 and normalize the result after each step to a simple fraction, which will only increase c_1.

That really sounds suspicious to me. Why not just solve this version directly with these changes. That should have been a more straightforward proof.

Wouldn’t this be easy to test though?