The sky outside was beginning to brighten.
Sitting at his desk, Lu Zhou took a deep breath and let out a long, contented sigh.
Many things were like this: understanding and not understanding were separated by nothing more than a thin sheet of paper.
If it could not be pierced, it was like admiring flowers through fog.
But once it was pierced, everything became crystal clear.
At that moment, displayed on his computer screen was the paper detailing the process of solving the general solution to the Yang–Mills Equations.
Compared with using an L-Manifold to introduce methods from Differential Geometry and prove the existence of solutions to this nonlinear Partial Differential Equations problem, the process of solving for the general solution was surprisingly concise. The main proof had even been completed in just ten pages.
Of course, part of the reason was that he had used several corollaries proven in his previous paper. Directly citing those conclusions had spared him a great deal of tedious repeated derivation.
Before submitting it, eager to share his joy with other scholars, Lu Zhou sent the paper to the editorial office of Mathematical Annals and also uploaded a preprint to arXiv.
After finishing all that, Lu Zhou stretched, rose from his chair, and went downstairs to take a hot shower.
Having stayed up all night, his biological clock was thrown into disarray, yet he was not sleepy in the slightest.
To avoid reversing his day and night and affecting tomorrow's work, he planned to hold out until noon, take a two-hour nap, and then go to sleep normally that night.
After coming out of the bathroom and changing into clean clothes, Lu Zhou went to the kitchen, made himself a cup of coffee, and took a frozen sandwich from the refrigerator, ready to put