What Do Recent Papers Claim About Goldbach's Conjecture?

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Goldbach's Conjecture remains an open problem in mathematics, as confirmed by multiple forum participants. Recent papers claiming advancements on the conjecture, including those available on arXiv, lack peer review and may not hold academic rigor. The consensus is that while discussions around these papers exist, they do not change the status of Goldbach's Conjecture as an unresolved issue in the mathematical community.

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I was under the impression that Goldbach's Conjecture is still an open question in mathematics.

Then what is it that the following three papers claim to do? (http://arxiv.org/ftp/math/papers/0609/0609486.pdf" )

Thanks for clearing up my confusion.
 
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It's still an open problem as far as I'm aware. The thing about arXiv is it isn't peer-reviewed, so the papers you linked to could simply be BS (and probably are).
 
morphism said:
It's still an open problem as far as I'm aware. The thing about arXiv is it isn't peer-reviewed, so the papers you linked to could simply be BS (and probably are).
OK. I suspected that the papers were BS, but I wasn't sure if arXiv was peer-reviewed. Thanks!
 

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