In my Father's House are many Mansions

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SupremeSpod replied

16 September 2012, 12:21
Originally posted by sbakoola View Post

isn't this just another parallel universes theory ?

Could be, but on the other hand...

Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

It's nothing to do with parallel universes or the holographic universe. That's physics. This is maths.

It's only Maths if it has a proof.
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OwlHoot replied

16 September 2012, 07:32
Originally posted by sbakoola View Post

isn't this just another parallel universes theory ?

One day, if it pans out, it might well have applications in physics, who knows? But the "universe" here refers to a maths concept, a Grothendieck universe.
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NotAllThere replied

16 September 2012, 05:15
It's nothing to do with parallel universes or the holographic universe. That's physics. This is maths.
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hyperD replied

15 September 2012, 22:05
Jeez, even with a belly full of mojitos and fried pulpo in garlic, I'm struggling to work out what this means. Is it proving the Holographic Universe hypothesis?
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sbakoola replied

15 September 2012, 21:59
isn't this just another parallel universes theory ?
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bless 'em all replied

15 September 2012, 20:23
From Wikipedia.

Not to be confused with Noncommutative geometry.

Pfft! Who'd make that mistake?
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vetran replied

15 September 2012, 20:04
ouch my head hurts - rarely? how does that work in maths.
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BrilloPad replied

15 September 2012, 18:40
What is green and commutes?

An albelian grape!
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OwlHoot started a topic In my Father's House are many Mansions

15 September 2012, 18:07
In my Father's House are many Mansions

A Japanese professor called Shinichi Mochizuki claims to have proved a famous conjecture called the ABC Conjecture, which most number theorists reckoned was decades from being solved.

He has developed a theory called Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory, which on that page he tries to sketch in everyday terms (hence my title).

It is apparently an extension of a specialised and largely conjectural topic called Anabelian geometry. Given that hardly anyone else was studying this, at the moment no one else in the world can fully understand his several hundred page proof (although many are scrabbling to catch up).

Some experts have been discussing it in this thread on MathOverflow, and on various blogs I imagine.

edit: Sasguru, could you have a quick flick through the relevant papers and check he hasn't made any obvious mistakes?

Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory I: Construction of Hodge Theaters

Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory II: Hodge-Arakelov-theoretic Evaluation

Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory III: Canonical Splittings of the Log-theta-lattice

Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory IV: Log-volume Computations and Set-theoretic Foundations

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