Timeline for Questions about correctness of published papers
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10 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Nov 15, 2022 at 9:27 | comment | added | J.J. Green | "I have a proof, and a counterexample, so one must be right", A. Fox, personal communication | |
| Jul 10, 2022 at 14:08 | comment | added | YCor | When "plusoneing/minusoneing" questions, one can read "this question shows research effort / does not show any research effort". I think this is what applies here. A question such as "Is Wiles' proof of Fermat valid?" shows no research effort, and this also applies to "is this paper correct?" without further context. | |
| Jul 9, 2022 at 7:12 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | @DavidRoberts: Certainly if their claims are the opposite of each other, that is one thing. But it's the nature of the argument, getting to the claim, that might lead to the greater contradiction. | |
| Jul 9, 2022 at 6:59 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | One paper claims A, the other claims not A, both in a generic mathematical setting (no foundational questions, everything in ZFC, i think); I don't think that in the exact context the statement A is independent of ZFC. But in principle that could be true in some other circumstance | |
| Jul 9, 2022 at 6:54 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | @DavidRoberts: Alternatively, both papers could be wrong while contradicting each other. | |
| Jul 9, 2022 at 6:53 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I would like an answer on the public record about the two Annals papers that Kevin Buzzard likes to point out are directly contradictory (without saying who got it wrong): which one is correct, and why is the wrong one wrong? How do you feel this sits in relation to your question? | |
| Jul 8, 2022 at 22:14 | answer | added | Kostya_I | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 8, 2022 at 21:16 | answer | added | Sam Hopkins | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jul 8, 2022 at 20:54 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Jul 8, 2022 at 19:59 | history | asked | Ryan Budney | CC BY-SA 4.0 |