Timeline for Can we categorify the formula for the quadratic Gauss sum?
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 2:16 | answer | added | Zahlendreher | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 5, 2013 at 0:48 | comment | added | Aleksandar Bahat | Thanks for your comment. I've heard of that result before somewhere, but never managed to track down a reference. It's very interesting, but doesn't really answer my question. If I had some result about objects that decategorified to this Gauss sum identity, then this paper might give me a proof "for free"; the problem is, I don't know what to prove about the objects yet! | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 18:02 | comment | added | Spice the Bird | The paper, "arxiv.org/abs/math.CT/0212377" makes precise and proves the following principle, "if an arithmetic statement about the objects can be proved by pretending that they are complex numbers, then there also exists an honest proof". | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 15:01 | history | asked | Aleksandar Bahat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |