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Can a nice observation without practical consequences be published?

  1. Top Mathematician
    prmq

    I can prove that some known problem A is equivalent to another known problem B. It seems that this equivalence is new (I asked some senior people), but for the moment it does not help to progress in A or B. I wonder if this is still publisheable in a good journal.

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    tmjz

    Half of theoretical computer science is just that.

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    ucgt

    Sure, that kind of thing is publishable. There are plenty of papers that do exactly this.

    How good of a journal it can get in is not answerable in the abstract. If you proved that RH is equivalent to Collatz, you can probably get it in the Annals. On the other hand, if the equivalence is sufficiently unsurprising or the problems are sufficiently boring the potential journal is unbounded below.

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    qeft

    You can publish it here. More people will read it, compared to a journal.

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    jwwo

    You can publish it here. More people will read it, compared to a journal.

    On the minus side, it would make it hard to claim priority; on the plus side, it might lead to an interesting discussion here.

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    lpzg

    You can publish it here. More people will read it, compared to a journal.

    On the minus side, it would make it hard to claim priority; on the plus side, it might lead to an interesting discussion here.

    Publish in Quanta. People will still discuss it here.

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    tmjz

    You can publish it here. More people will read it, compared to a journal.

    On the minus side, it would make it hard to claim priority;

    Public key signatures

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    lopw
    [...]

    On the minus side, it would make it hard to claim priority;

    Public key signatures

    I foresee a flourishing market in MJR shitposting NFTs.

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    qaqh
    [...]

    Public key signatures

    I foresee a flourishing market in MJR shitposting NFTs.

    I literally dreamt that I was getting extremely rich thanks to this

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    uscd

    your title literally describes math research

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    yvmo

    Most publications have neither a nice observation nor any applications.

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    qvgs

    Can a nice observation without practical consequences be published?

    No

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    hpol

    You can probably get it published in PAMS or that sort of journal. Not really going to make or break a career. Won't really count too much either.

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