Talk:Rota's conjecture

James Oxley sent an email out to his entire math department stating that Bert Gerards. Jim Geelen, and Geoff Whittle have proved Rota's conjecture. A paper confirming this will be out later this year, with the full write-up expected to take several years. Is personal correspondence from a very trusted source (Oxley practically invented matroid theory and is the highest ranked professor at LSU) of this nature worthy of posting on this page?

Something like that but available to the public (e.g. as a blog post) would fall under the "established expert" clause of our policy on self-published sources and be allowed. But it needs to be publicly available — I don't think a third-hand report "I heard that someone sent an email to someone else" is good enough, because it is not verifiable. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:33, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is an article about this now published in phys.org. I've added a new section "reported proof" with link to the physorg article. Robert Walker (talk) 13:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]