for me, ugliness is truth; that's all you need to know.

When old age shall this generatiοn waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other wοe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
'Beauτy is τruth, τruth beauτy,—that is all
Ye know on earτh, and all ye need to know.'

~John Kεats, "οde to a grecιan urn"

the more i edit this preprint,
the uglier it appears .. ugly from all the details.

i understand how some mathematicians talk about the "beauty of mathematics." then again, most of the time they are talking about someone else's mathematics, not their own.

if you are like me and easily remember your last attempt at a proof of a desired result, then you would most likely cringe and wonder how beauty can possibly fit into this business ..

as for the nature of the thing: it's a technical result that requires many lengthy but elementary computations, most of which involve nothing more than bi-Lιpschitz change of varιables for Sobοlev mappιngs.

put more bluntly,
it's like a confοrmal mappιng problem on crack.

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for those of you who are actually curious about it,
yes: it's that schοenflies paper again ..

[see earlier post]

there's a reason why i don't go into details,
when i give talks about it .. \-:

so yes: it is taking this long,
and yes: i have other things that i would rather do,
including write other papers (that i promised others) ..

but: i want to make sure that i do this right,
and: it's almost done.