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Four Color Theorem and Lie Algebras

Posted on 26 January, 2008 by Walt
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Thanks to Greg Muller, I’m looking at this paper by Dror Bar-Natan that reduces the Four Color Theorem to a plausible statement about Lie algebras. Now we just have to hope this new conjecture does not not require hundreds of pages of computer generated proof.

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