Top Student at Their Peak

Pierre Derini finally said this.

"Tao Xuanzhi? Alright, I must say he is indeed an excellent reviewer. Additionally, there are Peter Schultz, Andrew Wiles, Richard Taylor, Andrew Granville, and you, making a total of six reviewers, just enough."

Lott Degen listed the reviewers he had selected one by one.

Pierre Derini nodded. There's no denying that Lott Degen, as the editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Yearbook, is indeed professional in selecting reviewers.

The reviewers include experts in Number Theory, experts in Algebraic Geometry and the Langlands Program, experts in Modular Forms, interdisciplinary thinkers in mathematics, and an expert in computational and experimental validation, sufficient for a comprehensive review of this paper.

Yes, it's rare to have six reviewers for a paper, but Pierre Derini felt these two papers indeed deserved such a careful approach.

After all, this means that research in Number Theory will enter a brand new field starting with this, no, these two papers.

After agreeing with Lott Degen's idea, Pierre Derini asked, "Have they all agreed to be the reviewers for these two papers?"

Lott Degen looked at his old friend with a playful smile and replied, "Of course, except Tao Xuanzhi, I haven't informed him yet; everyone else has agreed.

I told them that your initial assessment of this paper is that if the article is correct, it will be the greatest milestone work of this century, bar none. So don't give it away."

Pierre Derini was momentarily stunned, then quickly regained his normal expression...

This damn guy, he swore that he hadn't said those words, as he had just completed an initial review of the paper and hadn't done any in-depth calculations and derivations.

"I noted it down, and if he is right, I will say it again publicly next time."

Pierre Derini glared at Lott Degen and replied.

Well, it's actually not bad to have a friend who understands him because he thinks this evaluation is very... apt.

If, in the end, everyone cannot find any errors or omissions in the article.

...

An important axiomatic framework construction takes time, proof takes time, and handing it over to reviewers for verification also takes time.

So after Qiao Yu submitted the manuscript, he no longer paid attention to this matter.

On one hand, the research had just started, and he needed to continue progressing it. Next, he had to introduce some more complex concepts.

For instance, modal convolution, which requires advancing the two-dimensional modal space into a three-dimensional one.

Advancing from two dimensions to three is also a complex process; the work that needs to be proved will become more complicated.

However, the verification work is indeed more complex than pure proofing.

Qiao Yu learned from Lott Degen that his paper would need at least four to five reviewers for review, and he could roughly estimate that the paper would appear in the journal at the earliest by the end of December, or perhaps he might have to wait until the following year.

Even if the reviewers are diligent, peer reviewing would take about two months, and then there's formatting.

According to Qiao Yu's plan, once the first batch of papers is published, he will start submitting the second batch, meaning there are three months left to work on the next stage.

Clearly, this time can be said to be quite ample.

For the second batch of papers, Qiao Yu intends to still split them into two articles, with himself and Senior Brother Chen as co-first authors.

The reason is straightforward, for occasionally having a top journal publication might make people think one just got lucky.

But if someone can continuously publish in top journals, it would make certain people realize this big shot must be venerated...

On the side, it can also act as advertisement for his research topic. Just as he and Lott Degen discussed, building the entire framework might require more than ten papers.

The initial workload isn't that large, but once Group Theory, Graph Theory, and such are introduced into the framework, various verification tasks will multiply.

The reason is simple; after introducing these complex theories, the modal space must be pushed to higher dimensions.

When Group Theory and Graph Theory are expanded into a high-dimensional modal space, the workload of verifying each theorem will grow exponentially.

For the simplest example, verifying group symmetry of a modal path might require examining interrelations across all dimensions.

Not to mention the fact that Group Theory and Graph Theory belong to different mathematical branches; integrating them into a single framework requires proof of some interdisciplinary properties, such as the effect of group representation on modal paths.

With the workload increasing exponentially, even if Senior Brother Chen sacrificed all his hair or worked himself to death, completing such complicated verification tasks in mere months would still be impossible.

So, on one hand, Senior Brother Chen gets what he wants, and on the other hand, he serves as a living advertisement for the research group.

Look, joining Qiao Yu's research group makes publishing in top journals easier, potentially doing so two or even three times a year.

Qiao Yu doesn't even worry about splitting the first authorship.

The rationale is simple enough; after continuous expansion and supplementation during this period, Qiao Yu believes this set of axiomatic systems can fully evolve into a highly axiomatic and modularized theory.

For example, after completing the proofing work for the Group Theory module, all verification work related to the introduction of Group Theory could be split into several papers.

Symmetry groups and geometric structures of modal spaces, group orbits and periodicity of modal paths, representation of groups within multidimensional modal spaces, Group Theory verification of modal convolutions, impacts of group actions on modal density functions, group theoretic descriptions of specific Number Theory problems in modal spaces...