Start as a top student and move towards the stars and the sea

Although Qiu Chengtong also felt in his heart that it was indeed too early for Ning Chen to attack Qiu Chengtong's conjecture.

But out of love for Ning Chen, Qiu Chengtong would definitely listen to all Ning Chen's thoughts first.

After hearing Qiu Chengtong's words, Ning Chen turned back the pages of the PPT and explained seriously to the big screen.

In the past few days of research, I have found a possible way to solve the problem of the existence of the first positive Kahler-Einstein metric in high-dimensional space.

Seeing this fourth-order completely nonlinear elliptic equation on the big screen, several professors couldn't help but frown and fell into thinking.

It turns out that as long as we solve this type of fourth-order completely nonlinear elliptic equation, the whole problem will be solved.

Qiu Chengtong was the first to understand what Ning Chen meant, nodded slightly and said.

Listening to Qiu Chengtong's explanation, several other professors gradually understood Ning Chen's thinking.

It is indeed a possible method. But Ning Chen, do you have any ideas about solving this equation?

Hearing this question, Ning Chen helplessly shook his head.

So far, I can only establish this equation. As for how to solve it, I don't have any ideas yet.

This feeling was like a wall falling in front of Ning Chen. Ning Chen had no strength to push down the wall.

After listening to Ning Chen's defense process, several professors began to study among themselves in low voices.

Speaking of which, just looking at the content of the PPT, Ning Chen is not as outstanding as the previous ones.

But in terms of the research significance of the topic, Ning Chen's topic is undoubtedly in a unique position.

After discussing for a while, Qiu Chengtong said:

I think Ning Chen's topic selection is very good, and the work he did before starting the topic is also groundbreaking. Although just looking at the PPT, it doesn't seem to have much content, but just such an equation has a high level of significance. It’s so valuable. Ning Chen, no matter how far you can achieve this topic in the future, I will give you full marks.

Hearing Qiu Chengtong's comments, Ning Chen felt very encouraged.

After finishing the thesis defense, Ning Chen returned to the dormitory.

Lin You had completed his thesis defense before Ning Chen. When Ning Chen came back, the two started chatting.

Ning Chen, what is the topic you chose?

“The topic I chose is to study the existence problem of the Kahler-Einstein metric in high-dimensional space with the first Chen type being positive, and transform it into the stability problem of algebraic geometry.”

Ning Chen deliberately did not mention the words Qiu Chengtong's conjecture, but Lin You immediately picked up the clues.

Isn't this Qiu Chengtong's conjecture? Did you really choose this topic?

Yes, if you don't believe me, look at my PPT.

With that said, Ning Chen showed his PPT to Lin You.

After seeing the content in the PPT, Lin You finally believed that what Ning Chen just said was true.

Ning Chen, you are really awesome. You challenge Professor Qiu's conjectures that he has not yet solved directly in front of him. Alas, in comparison, my research topic is too simple.

Ning Chen also took a look at Lin You's research topic. The difficulty was similar to the two topics Ning Chen had studied before. Of course, for an undergraduate, this was already very challenging.

I really haven't found any other suitable topics, and I might not be able to do anything in the end. In fact, it doesn't matter. It's just a training camp anyway. If you can't do it, you won't be denied graduation. You can learn a lot during the training camp. That’s enough stuff.”

Ning Chen's mentality is still very good. What Ning Chen hopes most at the moment is to quickly accumulate experience in mathematics and see the effect after upgrading to level two.

…

In the following time, Ning Chen did not continue the research work on the Qiu Chengtong Conjecture because Ning Chen currently did not have any ideas to try.

Ning Chen spent most of his time attending open classes and communicating with professors such as Qiu Cheng.

In fact, many students wanted to discuss some issues with Qiu Chengtong alone, but Qiu Chengtong ignored them.

Because Qiu Chengtong's time is limited, Qiu Chengtong will consider communicating with students only if their questions are valuable enough.

Ning Chen is the most favored student by Qiu Chengtong. After all, Ning Chen's research topic was proposed by Qiu Chengtong. He can exchange many of his opinions on this conjecture with Ning Chen.

This allowed Ning Chen to improve his mathematics subject experience very quickly, and also tried to avoid many detours that he might encounter in his subsequent research.

On the other hand, Ning Chen also had a lot of exchanges with other students in the training camp.

Because of Ning Chen's reputation, many students took the initiative to discuss some issues with Ning Chen. At the beginning, Ning Chen did not refuse.

However, Ning Chen later discovered that such communication was not very efficient. After all, there was still a big gap between these students and professors.

Therefore, Ning Chen had to reject invitations from many people and would only choose a few students who could talk to him to communicate with him.

On this day, Lin You said to Ning Chen while eating:

Ning Chen, can I ask you a favor?

Just tell me what it is.

Lin You can be said to be Ning Chen's best friend here. As long as he can help, Ning Chen will definitely not refuse.

It's like this. I have a master's student from Yan University who also participated in this training camp. She wants to ask you some questions. Is it inconvenient for you? It doesn't matter. It's okay if it's inconvenient for you.

Lin You is the kind of character who doesn't like to trouble others, and Lin You knows that Ning Chen's current research progress is not going well, and he doesn't want to disturb Ning Chen.

If that senior sister hadn't had a good relationship with him, I'm afraid Lin You wouldn't even ask Ning Chen for this matter.

What kind of questions does she want to ask? Ning Chen asked.

It's a question about the Sobolev equation. This issue was studied in one of your papers.

When Ning Chen heard this, he realized that this was the paper written by Tong Yicheng and himself.

Well, no problem, she can come over whenever she has time.

Since she was Lin You's senior, and the question was about a topic she had studied, Ning Chen naturally had no reason to refuse.

Thank you, I'll tell her then.

After a while, there was a knock on the door of the dormitory.

Lin You went over and opened the door, and it was his senior sister who came over.

Senior, you are here.

Ning Chen looked up when he heard the sound and saw a girl walking in with a stack of information in her arms.

What Ning Chen didn't expect was that this girl was very beautiful. Although she didn't even wear lipstick, she still showed a good temperament.

The light blue jeans highlight the girl's slender legs.

Hello, Ning Chen, I am Song Xiyun, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Yenching University.

Song Xiyun briefly introduced herself, and Ning Chen quickly said:

Hello, Senior Sister Song, please sit down.

Lin You moved his chair over, and Song Xiyun thanked her and sat next to Ning Chen.

I heard that you have been very busy recently, so I asked Lin You to ask if it was convenient for me. How about it, I didn't disturb you?

Don't bother me. Lin You said, Senior Sister Song wants to ask a question about the Sobolev equation, right?