With the controversy surrounding the quasi-Riemann hypothesis finally settled, the editorial office of Mathematical Annals sent an email to Lu Zhou as soon as possible after receiving his submission on the "Hyperelliptic Curve Analysis Method."
In the email, the editors first informed him that his previous submission had successfully passed peer review. They also stated that, before the end of the month, Mathematical Annals would publish a special issue devoted to the proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, featuring his paper of over thirty pages as well as the unique mathematical tool it employed, the "hyperelliptic analysis method."
Generally speaking, only a breakthrough on a major mathematical problem could persuade Mathematical Annals, one of the four leading journals, to dedicate a special issue to a paper.
Given the importance of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis in analytic number theory, it undoubtedly deserved that honor.
At the same time, considering that the Hyperelliptic Curve Analysis Method might offer inspiration for research into the Riemann hypothesis, and that readers might not understand certain steps in the proof without mastering this mathematical tool, the editors of Mathematical Annals decided to release both papers together in the same special issue.
Lu Zhou did not particularly care about the editors' arrangements. Whether they published the papers separately or combined them into a special issue made no difference to him.
Perhaps discussion of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis would keep flooding everyone's feeds until early next year before gradually subsiding. Perhaps it would take until the end of next year for the mathematical community to become broadly familiar with the mathematical ideas he had used in his proof.
But for Lu Zhou himself, the problem had become a thing of the past the moment he proved it.
Besides, he had already uploaded the preprint to arXiv before this. By now, at