Post-2016 Register census entry 125

P=NP: A Direct Proof

A post-2016 Register census entry for a claimed P = NP result by Aizhong Li. It was not part of Woeginger’s frozen list and remains an unadjudicated candidate.

Register number: 125
Author(s): Aizhong Li
Year claimed: 2018
Direction: P = NP
Works or versions: 4
Register status: Unadjudicated candidate
Refutation record: None recorded
Census source: sweep/post2016-candidates-v2.jsonl
Census SHA-256: 5e004aeecbc2d51ab55c93a769c81e8bf403cf7c50f668e294d289f7e7a04732

Candidate status

Unadjudicated candidate

Unadjudicated

The Register publishes this census record without endorsing or adjudicating the mathematical claim.

Unadjudicated does not mean endorsed.

No refutation is recorded in the census data. Absence of a located response is not evidence that none exists.

As of 26 July 2026

Register census note

Inclusion basis

The title and abstract expressly claim a proof of P=NP.

Links recorded by the census

The same link-list treatment is used across both corpora. These 63 post-2016 URLs carry the census’s dated link state; the 45-of-174 link-rot statistic remains explicitly historical.

Link retained by the post-2016 census
Live at census
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04519
Link status recorded by the census on 24 July 2026. This dated census status is separate from the held 174-link historical HEAD probe.

Post-2016 census provenance

Source: post-2016 discovery sweep
Venue type: arXiv
Arxiv id: 1809.04519
V1 date: 2018-09-12
Latest version: v4 (2018-10-22)
Status: current

Discovery queries

arXiv all:"P=NP"
arXiv abs:"present a proof that P = NP"

Cite this dossier

Plain text

The P versus NP Register. “Dossier 125: P=NP: A Direct Proof.” Post-2016 Register census entry; as of 26 July 2026.

BibTeX

@misc{pvnp-register-125-2026,
  author = {{The P versus NP Register}},
  title = {P=NP: A Direct Proof},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Post-2016 census dossier 125; unadjudicated; as of 2026-07-26}
}