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Half an hour passed quickly, and Ji Bai finished explaining the basic framework.

He put down his marker, brushed the whiteboard marker dust off his fingertips, then turned around and gave the audience a bright smile.

"Now that the tools have been introduced, let's try them out."

"After all, tools must have meaning!"

boom--!

The audience erupted in cheers!

Hands-on practice?

Ji Bai just spent half an hour building a cross-scale unified framework, casually combining the core ideas of the Langlands program, noncommutative geometry, and homotopy type theory... and this is just an introduction to the tool?

Then he wants to put it into practice on the spot?

The same thought flashed through everyone's mind: What is he going to do?

Are we going to have to prove another world-class problem on the spot?

Just like at a verification conference, wearing a school uniform, standing on the stage, using the tools you just invented, you instantly eliminate a century-old conjecture that has been left unresolved.

The atmosphere in the entire auditorium was instantly ignited!

Having just won the Fields Medal, he immediately proved another major conjecture?

This is an unprecedented academic spectacle!

Some people jumped up from their chairs, some gripped the back of the seats in front of them, and some picked up their phones and pointed them at the big screen, their fingers trembling slightly above the record button.

Everyone was extremely excited, their adrenaline surging through their veins.

The live stream chat in China froze for three seconds, filled with "Holy crap!", "Here it comes!", and "The Emperor is about to unleash his ultimate move!"

Under everyone's intense gaze, Ji Bai turned around, operated the organizing committee's computer, opened the browser, and went straight to the official website of the "Annals of Mathematics".

The entire audience was stunned.

The Annals of Mathematics is the most prestigious journal in the mathematics community, often referred to as the "book of the great principles" of mathematics.

Publishing a paper in such a journal is the lifelong pursuit of countless mathematicians.

But aren't we talking about a new proof now?

Why would you want to publish on a journal's official website?

Everyone was completely baffled and couldn't figure out his intentions at all.

Ji Bai slid his fingertip across the screen, and a paper appeared on the large projection screen.

A paper published more than a decade ago.

The audience was even more bewildered.

Why did Ji Bai want to revise this paper?

What's so special about this paper?

The author of this paper is Zhou?

Who is this person?

Only one person's expression changed completely.

Academician Zhou stared at the live broadcast screen, his eyes wide open like saucers.

That paper was his.

It was the paper he published in the Yearbook of Mathematics more than a decade ago.

It is his proudest masterpiece, the cornerstone of his academician election, vice chairmanship, and his influential position in the academic world.

Why did Ji Bai want to revise this paper?

Is it...

"You little bastard, what exactly do you want to do?"

……

Inside the auditorium.

Ji Bai pushed the laptop aside, picked up the marker again, and walked to the whiteboard.

"First, the core conclusion of this paper is that special values ​​of a certain class of automorphic L functions can characterize the structure of the corresponding Selmer group."

"The authors construct a mapping from the Galois representation to the automorphic form, and then, through a certain cohomological property of this mapping, deduce the order of the Selmer group."

"There's nothing wrong with this idea itself; it's bold and beautiful," Ji Bai said as he wrote.

"However, there is a key lemma here."

Ji Bai drew a heavy horizontal line under an equation with chalk.

"The author claims that this mapping is injective within the framework of p-entrant Hodge theory, and his proof involves constructing a commutative graph and tracing the graph, which seems to fit perfectly."

"But if we rerun this proof using operators..."

Ji Bai began drawing on the whiteboard.

I incorporated the multi-dimensional topological dimensionality reduction operator that I had just proposed into the core model of the paper.

The lines and formulas are nested in layers, and the logic is so clear that it is easy to understand at a glance.

Each step of the derivation was reintegrated into the cross-scale unified framework he had just constructed. The logical chain that was originally hidden under layers of diagrammatic argumentation was exposed to the light of day, as if it had been scanned from head to toe with an X-ray.

"It's not hard to see that there's a hidden assumption here."

Ji Bai circled a node in a commutative graph with chalk.

"The author assumes that the p-entrant Galois representation is restricted to a crystal representation in the local domain. This is not explicitly stated in the original text, but his graph-tracing argument must rely on this condition at this step, otherwise the arrow would not hold."

People in the audience started whispering among themselves.

Several elderly professors sitting in the front row had already turned to a new page in their notebooks, quickly taking notes on every derivation written down by Ji Bai, their expressions growing increasingly serious.

"And here too."

Ji Bai continued writing, speaking at a moderate pace.

"Even if we fill in this assumption for the author and continue, a problem arises again at the seventh step."

Ji Bai circled another node.

"This step of functor commutation requires the use of a vanishing theorem for noncommutative cohomology, but the operator's result shows that this cohomology group does not vanish under given conditions! It is not zero!"

"If it's not zero, it means the arrow is not unique, and if it's not unique, it means the entire subsequent structure is ambiguous."

The murmurs from the audience grew louder and louder.

Many people stood up and leaned forward, staring at the node on the whiteboard that Ji Bai had circled and marked "H²≠0".

"And here..."

"here……"

Ji Bai didn't stop; the chalk continued to move downwards.

Each circled dot represents a vulnerability.

Finally, Ji Bai wrote down the last equation, then stepped back to let everyone see the shocking conclusion on the whiteboard.

"so,"

"Rerunning the core argument of this paper using my operator yields the following conclusion:"

"Steps one through five are missing a hidden assumption. After adding it, the cohomology in step seven does not disappear, leading to the construction of ambiguity. The trace formula comparison in step twelve no longer holds after correcting the first two steps..."

"In other words, the core conclusions of the entire paper are invalid and have no reusable research value."

After a pause, Ji Bai concluded with a blunt statement in Northeastern dialect:

To put it bluntly, it's nothing!

boom--!

These words were like a thunderclap, sending chills down everyone's spines in the Alexander Auditorium.

The scholars in the audience were initially silent, then erupted in suppressed uproar.

This is a paper published in the Annals of Mathematics!

The top journal among the four leading journals in mathematics, the ultimate dream of mathematicians!

The fact that Academician Zhou's paper was published in the journal means that it underwent anonymous review by at least five top peers and is recognized as the "great path" in the mathematics community!

A truth that has been written into textbooks, cited by countless successors, and considered an unshakeable truth!

But now, this avenue has been cut down in ten minutes by an eighteen-year-old boy.

He used a new tool that he "accidentally" invented!

Some people quickly worked out calculations on scratch paper, their palms growing colder with each calculation; others stared at the derivation process on the screen, their mouths agape.

Wrong!

It's all wrong!

Using Ji Bai's new tools to verify the paper, it's riddled with flaws; to say it's "utterly worthless" wouldn't be an exaggeration.

"The mathematical genius, terrifying indeed..."

Someone muttered to themselves, a chill running down their spine.

Invent a tool at will and cut off a universally recognized "academic path".

This overwhelming strength has exceeded the boundaries of ordinary people's understanding of "genius".

"From this day forward, all mathematicians must regard this operator invented by Ji Bai as a fundamental tool!"

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