[chriskanan]

Usually when I see these things, I check if the author seems to have the right background. Yangjun Chen is a full professor at the University of Manitoba, but he doesn't seem to work in computer science theory.

It looks like the paper was previously published in a relatively low impact AI conference last year. It seems like it should be in FOCS, STOC, or a prestigious math journal to have significant credibility.

[pclmulqdq]

Many of those journals don't take P=NP proofs because they often come from quacks. Also, I wouldn't be surprised to see the start of a full proof coming from a non-theorist. Theorists have failed to make headway on P=NP for decades, so it would be reasonable to assume that some insight from a different place would be required.

[vadiml]

The author is CS professor in university of Winnipeg

[pclmulqdq]

He's the perfect profile for having the start of a P/NP proof: a full professor in computer science, but not really in the subfield of CS theory.

[rwmj]

He seems pretty qualified if this page is accurate: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37087254612