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LITTLE ROCK, AR. (June 2, 2010) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded investigators at the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) a 5-year, $2.2 million grant to explore whether school-based telemedicine sessions with doctors can help students in rural areas control their asthma. As the most common chronic childhood disease, asthma disproportionally affects minority and low-income children and can be especially burdensome for those who live far away from asthma specialists.
The Reducing Asthma Disparities in Arkansas (RADAR) research team, led by ACHRI investigator Tamara Perry, MD, will examine 12 school districts in rural east Arkansas counties, placing video-conferencing systems in six so that recruited students with asthma can have regular education appointments with specialists in Little Rock. The remaining schools will act as control sites. Researchers believe that the students who participate in the school-based asthma education and monitoring will gain better control over their disease, with fewer episodes of acute breathing problems.
"Children with asthma often live with frequent symptoms, so it becomes the norm for them," said Perry, the study's lead investigator and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine. "They don't understand that they shouldn't constantly struggle to breathe. We'll teach them that their asthma can and should be under control."
The RADAR study will include three years of school-based intervention, with each site hosting the video-conferencing sessions for a year. The project will begin in the schools in the fall of 2011.
Students ages 7 to 14 will learn how to recognize initial symptoms of an asthma attack, why it's important to take their medications as prescribed and ways to reduce their risk of complications. They'll sit for the video-conferencing education during non-instruction periods such as study hall or recess. During the sessions, they'll be able to speak directly with ACHRI asthma specialists so they can have questions answered and so the physicians can track their progress.
Parents also will be heavily involved in the project, attending courses to learn similar concepts, as well as effective methods for discussing their children's asthma with doctors. Schools that participate will receive state-of-the-art video-conferencing technology for the year they are involved, and the RADAR team will provide training for the districts' IT professionals and school nurses, as well.
Investigators will work cooperatively with the students' primary care providers, with ACHRI asthma specialists giving them updates on the level of patients' asthma control and disease management recommendations based on published national asthma guidelines.
Dr. Perry and her team hope that the study will reduce the disparities faced by rural children at high risk for asthma. If it is successful, the RADAR project could become a model for future chronic care telemedicine initiatives in remote communities across the nation.
"We know that being far away from sub-specialty services can be detrimental for children with chronic health problems," Perry said. "It's up to us to find innovative ways to provide the care they desperately need."
Preliminary studies to support the project were funded in part by the Arkansas Biosciences Institute and the UAMS Arkansas Center for Health Disparities. The UAMS Center for Distance Health also provides support through training, technological resources and telemedicine session coordination.
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(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- Ramona McAfee has been named assistant dean for military and federal programs for Columbia College. She will serve as the primary contact for the institution�s military partnerships, oversee the expansion of the college�s military programs, coordinate all military-related college marketing and informational materials and manage institutional participation in all military partnerships. Her duties also include supervision of the Redstone Arsenal (Ala.), Marysville/Everett (Wash.) and Whidbey Island (Wash.) campuses.
McAfee comes to the position with extensive experience in management and higher education administration on military installations. She previously served as director of distance education and military services at the University of Alaska system in Fairbanks. Other positions held during her 19-year tenure at the University of Alaska include director for the office of education services for the military, program director and academic advisor.
In September, McAfee was elected vice president and president-elect of the National Association of Institutions for Military Education Services (NAIMES), an organization that consists of 23 colleges and universities that provide the majority of higher education to U.S. military members worldwide. NAIMES serves as an advisory resource to Department of Defense and military service higher education leaders. Columbia College has been a member of NAIMES since 2002.
Seventeen of the 34 Columbia College campuses are located on military bases, including one in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One in every four students at Columbia College is in the military or is a military dependent.
"Educating military members and their families in today�s volatile world is not easy, but Columbia College is committed to doing so with superior customer service and the delivery of innovative curricula while maintaining the academic quality that is the college�s hallmark," said Dr. Gerald Brouder, president. "Ramona's extensive background in military education will certainly help advance the college's commitment to service members."
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A group of Ute Mountain Ute tribal members dissatisfied with current leadership are gathering signatures to trigger a recall election of Chairman Gary Hayes.
So far, the group has gathered about 400 signatures, said Sarah Tall Bird, a member of the tribe. Tall Bird is among a small group of tribal members who began circulating the petition two weeks ago. At least 25 percent of voters, or about 500 members, must sign the petition in order to trigger an election, according to tribal policy.
The petition comes two months after the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe received $42.6 million as a part of a settlement with the federal government.
While the petition is in response to several long-standing issues with the tribe�s leadership, organizers said officials� resistance to distribute the settlement money directly to members was the last straw.
�The money helped us to see that people haven�t been given a voice and that things haven�t been done right,� said Regina Lopez, another tribal member who is behind the petition.
The people don�t trust tribal leadership to manage and invest their money wisely, petition organizers said. They pointed to documents distributed last year to tribal members that showed the tribe�s net assets plunging from $15 million in 2008 to negative $4 million in 2010. During that same time, the graphs also showed a drop in earnings from energy-related endeavors and from the tribe�s enterprises such as the casino, travel center and pottery sales.
And while the petition targets Hayes� leadership, that is only one of several problems with the tribe�s leadership structure, other tribal members said.
Some members criticized Ute Mountain Ute leaders for neglecting to follow through with a code of ethics. The code was enacted in 2010 and establishes an ethics committee that aims to ensure tribal officials �understand their ethical obligations, adhere to proper standards of behavior and are accountable for unethical activities.�
But two years later, tribal members said no ethics committee has been formed.
Other members of the tribe said the Administrative Affairs Act � a 2009 resolution that outlines the duties and responsibilities of the tribal chairman � delegates to the chairman responsibilities that the constitution rightly granted to Tribal Council. Those duties include negotiating with federal, state and local governments and having say over the duties of staff members appointed or retained by the Tribal Council.
If nothing else, petition organizers hope their efforts will �shine some light� on the tribal members� grievances, Lopez said.


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Roseanne Barr On July 25, 1990, Barr performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds. What will go down in history as probably the worst rendition ever, Barr offended many including President George H.W. Bush, who called her rendition "disgraceful." (Photo: AP) Click Here for Video
Steven Tyler The Aerosmith rocker and "American Idol" judge sang the National Anthem at the AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens on Jan. 22, 2012. On Twitter, it's being described with terms like screech and mangle. CBSNews.com's "American Idol" blogger, Chris Matyszczyk, described it like this: "It was that Steven Tyler had sung the national anthem at the AFC Championship game in a manner that might have frightened the Alien back into John Hurt's intestines." (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) Click Here to watch video
Whitney Houston Houston gave us goose bumps when she nailed her rendition of the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXV in 1991. (Getty Images Sport/George Rose) Click Here for Video
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Have you noticed how the distribution of colored triangles form a pattern?
First some background. Until a few weeks ago I had Adblock Plus enabled on Woot sites. When I finally disabled it, I discovered a lot of new stuff on the pages.
Anyway, it appears that the number of users in the 90-100 and 80-89 are always just about equal; as are the 30-39 and 20-29 ranges. The 40-49 range is roughly twice the 50-79 range. The 50-79 range is roughly 3 times either the 90-100 or 80-89 ranges.
Here are the numbers from a few minutes ago:
90-100 (376) 30-39 (4,150)
80-89 (375) 20-29 (4,154)
50-79 (1,126) 1-19 (7,899)
40-49 (2,271) 0 (81,908)
Has anyone else noticed this and has it been this way for a long time?
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There is another one I forgot. If you add the 30-39 and 20-29 ranges together, then subtract either the 90-100 or 80-89 range, the result is pretty close to the 1-19 range.
Maybe I'm just suffering the effects of insomnia. Any ideas?
Didn't you know that even Chaos is organized?
I keep telling my husband this every time he comments about my ongoing closet re-arranging project.
I think the reputation system is a curve-fit. i.e. The pattern is produced and enforced by the algorithm, with some room for limited flexibility. (Also, things seem to have changed slightly since the site-overhaul update, but I may be imagining that.)
@psaux: You're not imagining the change in numbers, at all. Both purple and black were approaching 400, and after the change, they went down to (from memory) 372 or 371. I am always hopeful that asking questions will be figured less, but I've given up on it. I wish downvoting would go away, but I've given up on that, too.
Shawnmiller (deliberately not invoking; they're busy enough) has explained some of the theory behind the deliberate curve of the reputation algorithm before. A little judicious searching would point it out. The important thing to remember is that those numbers are inclusive only of people with at least some activity on Deals, no matter how small. I used to be fascinated with the numbers, and still do retain an interest.
Yes... Commented on that some time ago....
The WootGods occasionally have a purging of inactive accounts which will change the distribution of triangle colors...


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Just Call Him Mr. Clutch
Sluggers like Miguel Cabrera, Chris Davis and Adrian Gonzalez rank among the top run producers in baseball. But when it comes to delivering with runners in scoring position, no player in the majors is better than Allen Craig.
This season, the St. Louis Cardinals first baseman/outfielder has batted .461 with runners in scoring position, ahead of Davis (.370) and even Cabrera (.438). Craig also led baseball in the same statistic in 2012, batting .400, edging out Gonzalez.
Combining the last two years, Craig has hit .429 with runners in scoring position, topping Cabrera (.390) and 96 points better than Davis (.333).
As it stands, Craig owns the highest career batting average (.393) with runners in scoring position of all time, 44 points ahead of Tony Gwynn.
Granted, Craig is only in his fourth season, but he appears to buckle down when the pressure is on. With nobody on base, Craig has struck out once per five plate appearances. With runners in scoring position, he has only struck out once per eight.
There is a school of thought that clutch hitting doesn't exist, but it sure seems to in St. Louis: The Cardinals' .334 batting average with runners in scoring position this season is also an all-time high.
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Why does the Torah feel the Need to tell me the rules for making the Mishkan? First, it is no longer relevant, as, even if we build, we will build a Beis Hamikdash. Plus, the Medrashim say it will be pre-made anyway?
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Whether the third Beis Hamikdash will be pre-built is in fact the subject of a dispute among the Rishonim. Rashi (Sukkah 41a, ד"ה אי נמי) says that it will come down from Heaven ready-made; on the other hand, Rambam (Hil. Melachim 11:4) lists the building of the Beis Hamikdash as one of the things that Moshiach will accomplish (in fact, that he needs to do in order to be considered the definite Moshiach). There is also a famous reconciliation of these two opinions (I believe I've seen it attributed to R' Yehoshua Leib Diskin, the Brisker Rav) is that the building as a whole will come down from Heaven, but it will be up to us to put in the gates.
In any case, though, even Rashi might agree that the vessels and utensils of the third Beis Hamikdash have to be made by human hands. In his commentary to Ex. 25:9 (ד"ה וכן תעשו) he cites a couple of places where the Gemara explains that the instructions given in the Torah are indeed for all time: whenever one of the vessels needs to be replaced (or additional ones need to be made), they are to follow the patterns given here. So much of the description has practical value for that reason alone.
Aside from all that, though, there is a great deal we learn from the details of the Mishkan's construction:


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PEORIA, Ill. (February 22, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage (23-24-1-4) fell behind early and could not recover as they were blanked by the Peoria Rivermen (23-22-4-3), 5-0, on Friday night at Carver Arena.
Despite the loss, the Rampage won the season series against Peoria for the second straight year, as they went 3-1-0-0 against the Rivermen. The Rampage are now 4-2-1-0 on the Rodeo Road Trip.
The Rampage outshot Peoria, 34-29, on the night but were unable to solve netminder Mike McKenna, who stopped all 34 shots he faced to issue the Rampage their first shutout loss since Jan. 5 at the Houston Aeros.
Goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris made 17 saves off 22 shots in two periods of work before being relieved by Brian Foster in the third period. Foster stopped all seven shots he faced in the frame. Entering the game, Grumet-Morris was undefeated in six starts against Peoria and had allowed only six total goals to the Rivermen in his career.
The Rampage outshot Peoria, 14-9, in the first period but defensive miscues gave the Rivermen several high-quality chances that they capitalized on.
Peoria struck first when Evgeny Grachev put one past Grumet-Morris at 3:58 of the first period. Less than two minutes later the Rivermen struck again when Anthony Nigro found himself open in the right circle and fired a shot into the back of the net.
Peoria's leading scorer, T.J. Hensick added to Peoria's lead at 4:26 of the second period when Adam Cracknell sent him a lead pass that allowed him to walk in alone on Grumet-Morris. Andrew Murray made it 4-0 when he found a rebound in front of the net and banged it home at 15:43 of the middle frame.
Hensick closed the scoring in the second period with his second goal of the night when he took advantage of a Rampage turnover and beat Grumet-Morris high and off the crossbar at 19:13 of the middle frame.
The Rampage finished the game 0-for-5 on the power play, while Peoria was 0-for-3 with the man advantage. The defeat marked only the first time this season the Rampage have lost by a five-goal margin.
San Antonio will go right back to work as they make their way to Michigan for the first of a two-game set with the Midwest division-leading Grand Rapids Griffins starting tomorrow (Saturday) at 6:00 p.m.
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Will you please watch this video?
we were over in chat talking randomly about stuff, when @skippykj linked to this video. it had most of us tearing up.
watch it and share with everyone you know please. one never knows who might need it and not let tell you about it.
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Just to give some info:
To This Day Project - Shane Koyczan
It's a spoken word poem set to animation and music about being bullied.
Thanks for posting, moose. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume there are more than a handful of us that have been there.
A friend of mine linked that on Facebook the other day. I was very impressed, to say the least. It's inspirational and poignant without being (in my opinion) preachy or whiny. It even brought back a few memories from my own past.
@moosezilla: I may not always agree w/you, but I so appreciate what you say. Thank you for this question.
Yes, I do believe bullying is wrong. Dead wrong. For children. I also think that anyone over the age of 18, to perhaps, 25 needs to stop blaming their current life on what happened to them in the past.
Life is, indeed, hard. Difficult. But, please do step up and take responsibility for what happens to you from now on. Your choice. Stop making excuses. And being a *victim". You are not.
That's an amazingly similar story as to how I got my nickname...
@drchops: Your grandmother gave you Karate Chops?
@purplefeather: I watched it and the reruns ran in my mind of the past, as I had more than a few occasions of being devastated. It is a very powerful piece, well spoken. I placed a link on my own facebook page, and I don't share videos very often.
Very powerful, so moving. Thanks for sharing.
From someone whose nickname was woof in school that video was quite powerful.
That video gave me chills, thanks so much for sharing.
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@gmwhit: I both agree and disagree. For many adults, there can be some legitimate PTSD around childhood events that requires more than just hauling oneself up by the bootstraps. We are currently dealing with just such problems with our 27 year old son, so this is an issue very close to home. In his case, Aspergers Syndrome made him "different" enough that he was constantly the victim of bullies. I won't go into details, but since he graduated and got out of that nasty high school environment he seemed to have recovered beautifully. Unfortunately, just before Christmas he was attacked physically and verbally by someone near our family. Now he is struggling. Nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks. We are working with him and his doctor, but it's tough. Very tough.
@belyndag: My sincere apologies to you. As you may have guessed, this was not directed to any adult w/disorders such as your son has. So hope that he will gain back all the progress he had made and recover again.
@gmwhit: I dealt with some bullying as a child in school, but what has really impacted me as an adult has been bullying from my family.
Name calling, nearly constant reminders that I was "weird" and didn't fit in. Even now as an adult I have to deal with these things. They tell me that it was all harmless joking, the kind that all families participate in. They don't understand why I hate being around them, and in fact avoid situations that might lead to us being in the same place for more than a couple hours.
These people were my family. They were supposed to love and protect me and accept me no matter what (at least that's what everything in society told me to believe.) But they turned out to be the biggest bullies in my life. So much so that when I was bullied at school I just took that to be "normal" and never complained or thought anything of it until I was grown and realized that it WASN'T normal to be treated that way. That's not so easy to "get over."
I'm so glad that deals was off-line for a while. That gave me time to extract my foot from my mouth. Sorry I didn't explain what I was attempting to say. I failed. Sorry that, perhaps, I was misunderstood. My fault.
But most of all, I would like to extend a blanket apology to all.
I was bullied for being different in school in regards to something I could not change (at the time.) I have mild cerebral palsy, and am pretty lucky to have lived after a complicated preemie birth. Kids made fun of the way I walked, and one time, I caught the school bully mimicking my slight to pronounced left leg limp.
I was so enraged at that moment, that I wanted to do terrible things to this person. But, fearing retribution by his pals and/or the school administration, I walked off in an angry silence. To this day, I now know that the bully in question is still running his same tricks to gain admiration from his peers.
He's a real Scumbag Steve, personified more so that the actual "Scumbag Steve."
I have won the power struggle here, kid. I'm working on getting a solid education with a focus on Psychology (minor Anthropology,) and he's still doing nothing much. /endrant
@gmwhit: Haha! Sorry if I came off as a little harsh. You touched a nerve, you know? ;)
@purplefeather Please do not apologize to me. I erred, not you. I do understand what you said.
Somehow @bmw66x explained where I did not. S/he seems to have grown from the terrible experience. Recognizes the negative impact on their life. And, appears to have learned from it. In spite of, or because of, s/he has moved on. In a most positive way.


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Mochizuki has recently announced a proof of the ABC conjecture. It is far too early to judge its correctness, but it builds on many years of work by him. Can someone briefly explain the philosophy behind his work and comment on why it might be expected to shed light on questions like the ABC conjecture?
I'll take a stab at answering this controversial question in a way that might satisfy the OP and benefit the mathematical community. I also want to give some opinions that contrast with or at least complement grp. Like others, I must give the caveats: I do not understand Mochizuki's claimed proof, his other work, and I make no claims about the veracity of his recent work.
First, some background which might satisfy the OP. For years, Mochizuki has been working on things related to Grothendieck's anabelian program. Here is why one might hope this is useful in attacking problems like ABC:
Begin with the Neukirch-Uchida theorem. See "Über die absoluten Galoisgruppen algebraischer Zahlkörper," by J. Neukirch, Journées Arithmétiques de Caen (Univ. Caen, Caen, 1976), pp. 67–79. Asterisque, No. 41-42, Soc. Math. France, Paris, 1977. Also "Isomorphisms of Galois groups," by K. Uchida, J. Math. Soc. Japan 28 (1976), no. 4, 617–620.
The main result of these papers is that a number field is determined by its absolute Galois group in the following sense: fix an algebraic closure $\bar Q / Q$, and two number fields $K$ and $L$ in $\bar Q$. Then if $\sigma: Gal(\bar Q / K) \rightarrow Gal(\bar Q / L)$ is a topological isomorphism of groups, then $\sigma$ extends to an inner automorphism $Int(\tau): g \mapsto \tau g \tau^{-1}$ of $Gal(\bar Q / Q)$. Thus $\tau$ conjugates the number field $K$ to the number field $L$, and they are isomorphic.
So while class field theory guarantees that the absolute Galois group $Gal(\bar Q / K)$ determines (the profinite completion of) the multiplicative group $K^\times$, the Neukirch-Uchida theorem guarantees that the entire field structure is determined by the profinite group structure of the Galois group. Figuring out how to recover aspects of the field structure of $K$ from the profinite group structure of $Gal(\bar Q / K)$ is a difficult corner of number theory.
Next, consider a (smooth) curve $X$ over $Q$; suppose that the fundamental group $\pi_1(X({\mathbb C}))$ is nonabelian. Let $\pi_1^{geo}(X)$ be the profinite completion of this nonabelian group. Basic properties of the etale fundamental group give a short exact sequence: $$1 \rightarrow \pi_1^{geo}(X) \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X) \rightarrow Gal(\bar Q / Q) \rightarrow 1.$$
Now, just as one can ask about recovering a number field from its absolute Galois group ($Gal(\bar Q / K)$ is isomorphic to $\pi_1^{et}(K)$), one can ask how much one can recover about the curve $X$ from its etale fundamental group. Any $Q$-point $x$ of $X$, i.e. map of schemes from $Spec(Q)$ to $Spec(X)$ gives a section $s_x: Gal(\bar Q / Q) \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X)$.
One case of the famous "section conjecture" of Grothendieck states that this gives a bijection from $X(Q)$ to the set of homomorphisms $Gal(\bar Q / Q) \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X)$ splitting the above exact sequence. One hopes, more generally, to recover the structure of $X$ as a curve over $Q$ from the induced outer action of $Gal(\bar Q / Q)$ on $\pi_1^{geo}(X)$. (take an element $\gamma \in Gal(\bar Q / Q)$, lift it to $\tilde \gamma \in \pi_1^{et}(X)$, and look at conjugation of the normal subgroup $\pi_1^{geo}(X)$ by $\tilde \gamma$, well-defined up to inner automorphism independently of the lift.)
As in the case of the Neukirch-Uchida theorem, there is an active and difficult corner of number theory devoted to recovering properties of rational points of (hyperbolic) curves from etale fundamental groups. Here are two dramatically difficult problems in the same spirit:
I would place Mochizuki's work in this anabelian corner of number theory; I have always kept a safe and respectful distance from this corner.
Now, to say something not quite as ancient that I gleaned from flipping through Mochizuki's recent work:
Many people here on MO and elsewhere have been following research on the field with one element. It is a tempting object to seek, because analogies between number fields and function fields break down quickly when you realize there is no "base scheme" beneath $Spec(Z)$. But I see Mochizuki's work as an anabelian approach to this problem, and I'll try to describe my understanding of this below.
Consider a smooth curve $X$ over a function field $F_p(T)$. The anabelian approach suggests looking at the short exact sequence $$1 \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X_{\overline{F_p(T)}}) \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X) \rightarrow Gal(\overline{F_p(T)} / F_p(T)) \rightarrow 1.$$ But much more profitable is to look instead at $X$ as a surface over $F_p$ which corresponds in the anabelian perspective to studying $$1 \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X_{\bar F_p}) \rightarrow \pi_1^{et}(X) \rightarrow Gal(\bar F_p / F_p) \rightarrow 1.$$ But this is pretty close to looking at $\pi_1^{et}(X)$ by itself; there's just a little profinite $\hat Z$ quotient floating around, but this can be characterized (I think) group theoretically within the study of $\pi_1^{et}(X)$ itself.
I would understand (after reading Mochizuki) that looking at curves $X$ over function fields $F_p(T)$ as surfaces over $F_p$ is like looking at only the etale fundamental group $\pi_1^{et}(X)$ without worrying about the map to $Gal(\overline{F_p(T)} / F_p(T))$.
So, the natural number field analogue would be the following. Consider a smooth curve $X$ over $Q$. In fact, let's make $X = E - \{ 0 \}$ be a once-punctured elliptic curve over $Q$. Then the absolute anabelian geometry suggests that to study $X$, it should be profitable to study the etale fundamental group $\pi_1^{et}(X)$ all by itself as a profinite group. This is the anabelian analogue of what others might call "studying (a $Z$-model of) $X$ as a surface over the field with one element".
Without understanding any of the proofs in Mochizuki, I think that his work arises from this absolute anabelian perspective of understanding the arithmetic of once-punctured elliptic curves over $Q$ from their etale fundamental groups. The ABC conjecture is equivalent to Szpiro's conjecture which is a conjecture about the arithmetic of elliptic curves over $Q$.
Now here is a suggestion for number theorists who, like myself, have unfortunately ignored this anabelian corner. Let's try to read the papers of Neukirch and/or Uchida to get a start, and let's try to understand Minhyong Kim's work on Siegel's Theorem ("The motivic fundamental group of $P^1 \backslash ( 0, 1, \infty )$ and the theorem of Siegel," Invent. Math. 161 (2005), no. 3, 629–656.)
It would be wonderful if, while we're waiting for the experts to weight in on Mochizuki's work, we took some time to revisit some great results in the anabelian program. If anyone wants to start a reading group / discussion blog on these papers, I would enjoy attending and discussing.
I would have preferred not to comment seriously on Mochizuki's work before much more thought had gone into the very basics, but judging from the internet activity, there appears to be much interest in this subject, especially from young people. It would obviously be very nice if they were to engage with this circle of ideas, regardless of the eventual status of the main result of interest. That is to say, the current sense of urgency to understand something seems generally a good thing. So I thought I'd give the flimsiest bit of introduction imaginable at this stage. On the other hand, as with many of my answers, there's the danger I'm just regurgitating common knowlege in a long-winded fashion, in which case, I apologize.
For anyone who wants to really get going, I recommend as starting point some familiarity with two papers, 'The Hodge-Arakelov theory of elliptic curves (HAT)' and 'The Galois-theoretic Kodaira-Spencer morphism of an elliptic curve (GTKS).' [It has been noted here and there that the 'Survey of Hodge Arakelov Theory I,II' papers might be reasonable alternatives.][I've just examined them again, and they really might be the better way to begin.] These papers depart rather little from familiar language, are essential prerequisites for the current series on IUTT, and will take you a long way towards a grasp at least of the motivation behind Mochizuki's imposing collected works. This was the impression I had from conversations six years ago, and then Mochizuki himself just pointed me to page 10 of IUTT I, where exactly this is explained. The goal of the present answer is to decipher just a little bit those few paragraphs.
The beginning of the investigation is indeed the function field case (over $\mathbb{C}$, for simplicity), where one is given a family $$f:E \rightarrow B$$ of elliptic curves over a compact base, best assumed to be semi-stable and non-isotrivial. There is an exact sequence $$0\rightarrow \omega_E \rightarrow H^1_{DR}(E) \rightarrow H^1(O_E)\rightarrow0,$$ which is moved by the logarithmic Gauss-Manin connection of the family. (I hope I will be forgiven for using standard and non-optimal notation without explanation in this note.) That is to say, if $S\subset B$ is the finite set of images of the bad fibers, there is a log connection $$H^1_{DR}(E) \rightarrow H^1_{DR}(E) \otimes \Omega_B(S),$$ which does not preserve $\omega_E$. This fact is crucial, since it leads to an $O_B$-linear Kodaira-Spencer map $$KS:\omega \rightarrow H^1(O_E)\otimes \Omega_B(S),$$ and thence to a non-trivial map $$\omega_E^2\rightarrow \Omega_B(S).$$ From this, one easily deduces Szpiro's inequality: $$\deg (\omega_E) \leq (1/2)( 2g_B-2+|S|).$$ At the most simple-minded level, one could say that Mochizuki's programme has been concerned with replicating this argument over a number field $F$. Since it has to do with differentiation on $B$, which eventually turns into $O_F$, some philosophical connection to $\mathbb{F}_1$-theory begins to appear. I will carry on using the same notation as above, except now $B=Spec(O_F)$.
A large part of HAT is exactly concerned with the set-up necessary to implement this idea, where, roughly speaking, the Galois action has to play the role of the GM connection. Obviously, $G_F$ doesn't act on $H^1_{DR}(E)$. But it does act on $H^1_{et}(\bar{E})$ with various coefficients. The comparison between these two structures is the subject of $p$-adic Hodge theory, which sadly works only over local fields rather than a global one. But Mochizuki noted long ago that something like $p$-adic Hodge theory should be a key ingredient because over $\mathbb{C}$, the comparison isomorphism $$H^1_{DR}(E)\simeq H^1(E(\mathbb{C}), \mathbb{Z})\otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} O_B$$ allows us to completely recover the GM connection by the condition that the topological cohomology generates the flat sections.
In order to get a global arithmetic analogue, Mochizuki has to formulate a discrete non-linear version of the comparison isomorphism. What is non-linear? This is the replacement of $H^1_{DR}$ by the universal extension $$E^{\dagger}\rightarrow E,$$ (the moduli space of line bundles with flat connection on $E$) whose tangent space is $H^1_{DR}$ (considerations of this nature already come up in usual p-adic Hodge theory). What is discrete is the \'etale cohomology, which will just be $E[\ell]$ with global Galois action, where $\ell$ can eventually be large, on the order of the height of $E$ (that is $\deg (\omega_E)$). The comparison isomorphism in this context takes the following form: $$\Xi: A_{DR}=\Gamma(E^{\dagger}, L)^{<\ell}\simeq L|E[\ell]\simeq (L|e_{E})\otimes O_{E[\ell]}.$$ (I apologize for using the notation $A_{DR}$ for the space that Mochizuki denotes by a calligraphic $H$. I can't seem to write calligraphic characters here.) Here, $L$ is a suitably chosen line bundle of degree $\ell$ on $E$, which can then be pulled back to $E^{\dagger}$. The inequality refers to the polynomial degree in the fiber direction of $E^{\dagger} \rightarrow E$. The isomorphism is effected via evaluation of sections at $$E^{\dagger}[\ell]\simeq E[\ell].$$ Finally, $$ L|E[\ell]\simeq (L|e_{E})\otimes O_{E[\ell]}$$ comes from Mumford's theory of theta functions. The interpretation of the statement is that it gives an isomorphism between the space of functions of some bounded fiber degree on non-linear De Rham cohomology and the space of functions on discrete \'etale cohomology. This kind of statement is entirely due to Mochizuki. One sometimes speaks of $p$-adic Hodge theory with finite coefficients, but that refers to a theory that is not only local, but deals with linear De Rham cohomology with finite coefficients.
Now for some corrections: As stated, the isomorphism is not true, and must be modified at the places of bad reduction, the places dividing $\ell$, and the infinite places. This correction takes up a substantial portion of the HAT paper. That is, the isomorphism is generically true over $B$, but to make it true everywhere, the integral structures must be modified in subtle and highly interesting ways, while one must consider also a comparison of metrics, since these will obviously figure in an arithmetic analogue of Szpiro's conjecture. The correction at the finite bad places can be interpreted via coordinates near infinity on the moduli stack of elliptic curves as the subtle phenomenon that Mochizuki refers to as 'Gaussian poles' (in the coordinate $q$). Since this is a superficial introduction, suffice it to say for now that these Gaussian poles end up being a major obstruction in this portion of Mochizuki's theory.
In spite of this, it is worthwhile giving at least a small flavor of Mochizuki's Galois-theoretic KS map. The point is that $A_{DR}$ has a Hodge filtration defined by
$F^rA_{DR}= \Gamma(E^{\dagger}, L)^{ < r} $
(the direction is unconventional), and this is moved around by the Galois action induced by the comparison isomorphism. So one gets thereby a map $$G_F\rightarrow Fil (A_{DR})$$ into some space of filtrations on $A_{DR}$. This is, in essence, the Galois-theoretic KS map. That, is if we consider the equivalence over $\mathbb{C}$ of $\pi_1$-actions and connections, the usual KS map measures the extent to which the GM connection moves around the Hodge filtration. Here, we are measuring the same kind of motion for the $G_F$-action.
This is already very nice, but now comes a very important variant, essential for understanding the motivation behind the IUTT papers. In the paper GTKS, Mochizuki modified this map, producing instead a 'Lagrangian' version. That is, he assumed the existence of a Lagrangian Galois-stable subspace $G^{\mu}\subset E[l]$ giving rise to another isomorphism $$\Xi^{Lag}:A_{DR}^{H}\simeq L\otimes O_{G^{\mu}},$$ where $H$ is a Lagrangian complement to $G^{\mu}$, which I believe does not itself need to be Galois stable. $H$ is acting on the space of sections, again via Mumford's theory. This can be used to get another KS morphism to filtrations on $A_{DR}^{H}$. But the key point is that
$\Xi^{Lag}$, in contrast to $\Xi$, is free of the Gaussian poles
via an argument I can't quite remember (If I ever knew).
At this point, it might be reasonable to see if $\Xi^{Lag}$ contributes towards a version of Szpiro's inequality (after much work and interpretation), except for one small problem. A subspace like $G^{\mu}$ has no reason to exist in general. This is why GTKS is mostly about the universal elliptic curve over a formal completion near $\infty$ on the moduli stack of elliptic curves, where such a space does exists. What Mochizuki explains on IUTT page 10 is exactly that the scheme-theoretic motivation for IUG was to enable the move to a single elliptic curve over $B=Spec(O_F)$, via the intermediate case of an elliptic curve 'in general position'.
To repeat:
A good 'nonsingular' theory of the KS map over number fields requires a global Galois invariant Lagrangian subspace $G^{\mu}\subset E[l]$.
One naive thought might just be to change base to the field generated by the $\ell$-torsion, except one would then lose the Galois action one was hoping to use. (Remember that Szpiro's inequality is supposed to come from moving the Hodge filtration inside De Rham cohomology.) On the other hand, such a subspace does often exist locally, for example, at a place of bad reduction. So one might ask if there is a way to globally extend such local subspaces.
It seems to me that this is one of the key things going on in the IUTT papers I-IV. As he say in loc. cit. he works with various categories of collections of local objects that simulate global objects. It is crucial in this process that many of the usual scheme-theoretic objects, local or global, are encoded as suitable categories with a rich and precise combinatorial structure. The details here get very complicated, the encoding of a scheme into an associated Galois category of finite \'etale covers being merely the trivial case. For example, when one would like to encode the Archimedean data coming from an arithmetic scheme (which again, will clearly be necessary for Szpiro's conjecture), the attempt to come up with a category of about the same order of complexity as a Galois category gives rise to the notion of a Frobenioid. Since these play quite a central role in Mochizuki's theory, I will quote briefly from his first Frobenioid paper:
'Frobenioids provide a single framework [cf. the notion of a "Galois category"; the role of monoids in log geometry] that allows one to capture the essential aspects of both the Galois and the divisor theory of number fields, on the one hand, and function fields, on the other, in such a way that one may continue to work with, for instance, global degrees of arithmetic line bundles on a number field, but which also exhibits the new phenomenon [not present in the classical theory of number fields] of a "Frobenius endomorphism" of the Frobenioid associated to a number field.'
I believe the Frobenioid associated to a number field is something close to the finite \'etale covers of $Spec(O_F)$ (equipped with some log structure) together with metrized line bundles on them, although it's probably more complicated. The Frobenious endomorphism for a prime $p$ is then something like the functor that just raises line bundles to the $p$-th power. This is a functor that would come from a map of schemes if we were working in characteristic $p$, but obviously not in characteristic zero. But this is part of the reason to start encoding in categories:
We get more morphisms and equivalences.
Some of you will notice at this point the analogy to developments in algebraic geometry where varieties are encoded in categories, such as the derived category of coherent sheaves. There as well, one has reconstruction theorems of the Orlov type, as well as the phenomenon of non-geometric morphisms of the categories (say actions of braid groups). Non-geometric morphisms appear to be very important in Mochizuki's theory, such as the Frobenius above, which allows us to simulate characteristic $p$ geometry in characteristic zero. Another important illustrative example is a non-geometric isomorphism between Galois groups of local fields (which can't exist for global fields because of the Neukirch-Uchida theorem). In fact, I think Mochizuki was rather fond of Ihara's comment that the positive proof of the anabelian conjecture was somewhat of a disappointment, since it destroys the possibility that encoding curves into their fundamental groups will give rise to a richer category. Anyways, I believe the importance of non-geometric maps of categories encoding rather conventional objects is that
they allow us to glue together several standard categories in nonstandard ways.
Obviously, to play this game well, some things need to be encoded in rigid ways, while others should have more flexible encodings.
For a very simple example that gives just a bare glimpse of the general theory, you might consider a category of pairs $$(G,F),$$ where $G$ is a profinite topological group of a certain type and $F$ is a filtration on $G$. It's possible to write down explicit conditions that ensure that $G$ is the Galois group of a local field and $F$ is its ramification filtration in the upper numbering (actually, now I think about it, I'm not sure about 'explicit conditions' for the filtration part, but anyways). Furthermore, it is a theorem of Mochizuki and Abrashkin that the functor that takes a local field to the corresponding pair is fully faithful. So now, you can consider triples $$(G,F_1, F_2),$$ where $G$ is a group and the $F_i$ are two filtrations of the right type. If $F_1=F_2$, then this 'is' just a local field. But now you can have objects with $F_1\neq F_2$, that correspond to strange amalgams of two local fields.
As another example, one might take a usual global object, such as $$ (E, O_F, E[l], V)$$ (where $V$ denotes a collection of valuations of $F(E[l])$ that restrict bijectively to the valuations $V_0$ of $F$), and associate to it a collection of local categories indexed by $V_0$ (something like Frobenioids corresponding to the $E_v$ for $v\in V_0$). One can then try to glue them together in non-standard ways along sub-categories, after performing a number of non-standard transformations. My rough impression at the moment is that the 'Hodge theatres' arise in this fashion. [This is undoubtedly a gross oversimplification, which I will correct in later amendments.] You might further imagine that some construction of this sort will eventually retain the data necessary to get the height of $E$, but also have data corresponding to the $G^{\mu}$, necessary for the Lagrangian KS map. In any case, I hope you can appreciate that a good deal of 'dismantling' and 'reconstructing,' what Mochizuki calls surgery, will be necessary.
I can't emphasize enough times that much of what I write is based on
faulty memory and guesswork. At best, it is superficial, while at worst,
it is (not even) wrong. [
Allow me to make one remark about set theory, about which I know next to nothing. Even with more straightforward papers in arithmetic geometry, the question sometimes arises about Grothendieck's universe axiom, mostly because universes appear to be used in SGA4. Usually, number-theorists (like me) neither understand, nor care about such foundational matters, and questions about them are normally met with a shrug. The conventional wisdom of course is that any of the usual theorems and proofs involving Grothendieck cohomology theories or topoi do not actually rely on the existence of universes, except general laziness allows us to insert some reference that eventually follows a trail back to SGA4. However, this doesn't seem to be the case with Mochizuki's paper. That is, universes and interactions between them seem to be important actors rather than conveniences. How this is really brought about, and whether more than the universe axiom is necessary for the arguments, I really don't understand enough yet to say. In any case, for a number-theorist or an algebraic geometer, I would guess it's still prudent to acquire a reasonable feel for the 'usual' background and motivation (that is, HAT, GTKS, and anabelian things) before worrying too much about deeper issues of set theory.
Last revision: 10/20. (Probably the last for at least some time to come: until Mochizuki uploads his revisions of IUTT-III and IUTT-IV. My apology for the multiple revisions. )
Completely rewritten. (9/26)
It seems indeed that nothing like Theorem 1.10 from Mochizuki's IUTT-IV could hold.
Here is an infinite set of counterexamples, assuming for convenience two standard conjectures (the first being in fact a consequence of ABC), that contradict Thm. 1.10 very badly.
Further, as far as I can tell from the proof of Theorem 1.10 of IUTTIV, the only reason for taking $F := F_{\mathrm{tpd}}\big( \sqrt{-1}, E_{F_{\mathrm{tpd}}}[3\cdot 5] \big)$ --- rather than simply $F := F_{\mathrm{tpd}}(\sqrt{-1})$ --- was to ensure that $E$ has semistable reduction over $F$. Since I will only work in what follows with semistable elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$, I will assume, for a mild technical convenience in the examples below, that for elliptic curves already semistable over $F_{\mathrm{tpd}}$, we may actually take $F := F_{\mathrm{tpd}}(\sqrt{-1})$ in Theorem 1.10.
The infinite set of counterexamples. They come from Masser's paper [Masser: Note on a conjecture of Szpiro, Asterisque 1990], as follows. Masser has produced an infinite set of Frey-Hellougarch (i.e., semistable and with rational 2-torsion) elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ whose conductor $N$ and minimal discriminant $\Delta$ satisfy $$ (1) \hspace{3cm} \frac{1}{6}\log{|\Delta|} \geq \log{N} + \frac{\sqrt{\log{N}}}{\log{\log{N}}}. $$ (Thus, $N$ in these examples may be taken arbitrarily large. ) By (A) above, taking $N$ big enough will ensure that $$ (2) \hspace{3cm} \log{|\Delta|} < (\log{N})^2. $$ Next, the sum of the logarithms of the primes in the interval $\big( (\log{N})^2, 3(\log{N})^2 \big)$ is $2(\log{N})^2 + o((\log{N})^2)$, so it is certainly $> (\log{N})^2$ for $N \gg 0$ big enough. Thus, by (2), it is easy to see that the interval $\big( (\log{N})^2, 3(\log{N})^2 \big)$ contains a prime $\ell$ which divides neither $|\Delta|$ nor any of the exponents $\alpha = \mathrm{ord}_p(\Delta)$ in the prime factorization $|\Delta| = \prod p^{\alpha}$ of $|\Delta|$.
Consider now the pair $(E,\ell)$: it has $F_{\mathrm{mod}} = \mathbb{Q}$, and since $E$ has rational $2$-torsion, $F_{\mathrm{tpd}} = \mathbb{Q}$ as well. Let $F := \mathbb{Q} \big( \sqrt{-1}\big)$. I claim that, upon taking $N$ big enough, the pair $(E_F,\ell)$ arises from an initial $\Theta$-datum as in IUTT-I, Definition 3.1. Indeed:
while $\mathbb{V}_{\mathrm{mod}}^{\mathrm{bad}}$ consists of the primes dividing $\Delta$;
Now, take $\epsilon := \big( \log{N} \big)^{-2}$ in Theorem 1.10 of IUTT-IV; this is certainly permissible for $N \gg 0$ large enough. I claim that the conclusion of Theorem 1.10 contradicts (1) as soon as $N \gg 0$ is large enough.
For note that Mochizuki's quantity $\log(\mathfrak{q})$ is precisely $\log{|\Delta|}$ (reference: see e.g. Szpiro's article in the Grothendieck Festschrift, vol. 3); his $\log{(\mathfrak{d}^{\mathrm{tpd}})}$ is zero; his $d_{\mathrm{mod}}$ is $1$; and his $\log{(\mathfrak{f}^{\mathrm{tpd}})}$ is our $\log{N}$. By construction, our choice $\epsilon := \big( \log{N} \big)^{-2}$ then makes $1/\ell < \epsilon$ and $\ell < 3/\epsilon$, whence the finaly display of Theorem 1.10 would yield $$ \frac{1}{6} \log{|\Delta|} \leq (1+29\epsilon) \cdot \log{N} + 2\log{(3\epsilon^{-8})} < \log{N} + 16\log{\log{N}} + 32, $$ where we have used $\epsilon \log{N} = (\log{N})^{-1} < 1$ for $N > 3$, and $2\log{3} < 3$.
The last display contradicts (1) as soon as $N \gg 0$ is big enough.
Thus Masser's examples yield infinitely many counterexamples to Theorem 1.10 of IUTT-IV (as presently written).
Added on 10/15, and revised 10/20. Mochizuki has commented on the apparent contradiction between Masser's examples and Theorem 1.10:
He writes that he will revise portions of IUTT-III and IUTT-IV, and will make them available in the near future. (He estimates January 2013 to be a reasonable period). He confirms the following ["essentially"] anticipated revision of Theorem 1.10:
Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be a semistable elliptic curve with [say, for the sake of simplifying] rational $2$-torsion [i.e., a Frey-Hellegouarch curve] of minimal discriminant $\Delta$ and conductor $N$ (square-free). For $\epsilon > 0$, let $N_{\epsilon} := \prod_{p \mid N, p < \epsilon^{-1}} p$. Then: $$ \frac{1}{6} \log{|\Delta|} < \big( 1 + \epsilon \big) \log{N} + \Big( \omega(N_{\epsilon}) \cdot \log{(1/\epsilon)} - \log{N_{\epsilon}} \Big) + O\big( \log{(1/\epsilon)} \big) $$ $$ < \log{N} + \Big( \epsilon \log{N} + \big( \epsilon \log{(1/\epsilon)} \big)^{-1} \Big) + o\Big( \big( \epsilon \log{(1/\epsilon)} \big)^{-1} \Big), $$ where $\omega(\cdot)$ denotes "number of prime factors." The second estimate comes from the prime number theorem in the form $\pi(t) = t/\log{t} + t/(\log{t})^2 + o\big( t/(\log{t})^2 \big)$, applied to $t := \epsilon^{-1}$, and is sharp if you restrict $\epsilon$ to the range $\epsilon^{-1} < (\log{N})^{\xi}$ with $\xi < 1$, as there nothing prevents $N$ from being divisible by all primes $p < (\log{N})^{\xi}$. In particular, as the Erdos-Stewart-Tijdeman-Masser construction is based on the pigeonhole principle, which cannot preclude that $N$ be divisible by all the primes $< (\log{N})^{2/3}$, the second estimate could very well be sharp in all the Masser examples. As it is easily seen that the bracketed term exceeds the range $\sqrt{\log{N}}/(\log{\log{N}})$ of Masser's examples, this has the implication that
the Erdos-Stewart-Tijdeman-Masser method cannot disprove Mochizuki's revised inequality,
which therefore seems reasonable.
On the other hand, if we take $\epsilon := (\log{N})^{-1}$ and assume $\omega(N_{\epsilon})$ bounded, this would yield $(1/6)\log{|\Delta|} < \log{N} + O(\log{\log{N}})$, just as before. (Thus, Mochizuki predicts that this last bound must hold for $N$ a large enough square-free integer such that the number of primes $< \log{N}$ dividing $N$ is bounded. I cannot see evidence neither for nor against this at the moment: again, the Masser and Erdos-Stewart-Tijdeman constructions are based on the pigeonhole principle, and do not seem to be able to exclude the small primes $< \log{N}$. So here we have an open problem by which one could probe Mochizuki's revised inequality. A reminder: in terms of the $abc$-triple, $\Delta$ is essentially $(abc)^2$, and $N = \mathrm{rad}(abc)$).
A side remark: note that the inverse $1/\ell$ of the prime level from the de Rham-Etale correspondence $(E^{\dagger}, < \ell) \leftrightarrow E[\ell]$ in Mochizuki's "Hodge-Arakelov theory" ultimately figures as the $\epsilon$ in the ABC conjecture.
[I have deleted the remainder of the 10/15 Addendum, since it is now obsolete after Mochizuki's revised comments. ]
[The answer below is a response to an earlier version of the question that was rather different in certain respects. Minhyong Kim's answer gives excellent insight into ideas that Mochizuki had back in 2000 and that provide essential building blocks for the more recent work. But I still believe that it is too premature for a non-expert to seek insight into the new work, for reasons explained below, given that many top experts are presently trying to absorb the ideas Mochizuki developed back in 2000.]
This question appears to be inspired by an historical fallacy: the only "vision" of a proof of the Weil Conjectures that Grothendieck had when he began developing ideas related to his work on the problem (i.e., etale cohomology) was the one laid out in Weil's original paper. The yoga around the standard conjectures came much later.
That being said, although the new ABC developments are potentially very exciting, and it is understandable to want to "share in the excitement", for reasons specific to this situation it seems to be much too premature to ask for a sketch on MO or in a blog of Mochizuki's vision/proof with an expectation of insight into the new work. Let me try to indicate why this is the case.
As has been explained clearly by JSE elsewhere, there are plenty of top experts in arithmetic geometry who are presently struggling to get even a small handle on what is really going on in Mochizuki's papers (due entirely to the experts' lack of prior study of these ideas; Mochizuki's writing is extremely precise, detailed, thorough, and full of intuitive asides!). So the situation seems to be rather different from that of other tremendous advances in recent decades (by Perelman, Faltings, Wiles, etc.), for which the deep new work took place within a context that was already somewhat familiar to a good-sized community of experts in the field (who could then use their experience and expertise to quickly disseminate a "bird's eye view" to others of some of the key new ideas).
Because of the rather unique circumstances of this case, as just indicated, I believe that quid's initial urging of patience (if one isn't going to be directly engaged with the struggle to read the actual papers and the prior work upon which they depend) is appropriate.
But to end on a semi-positive note, let me explain why quid's mention of Mochizuki's survey papers is very apt. Some of those surveys are relatively short (e.g., less than 20 pages), and if you find them difficult to grok then you will get a real sense of the difficulties that a lot of top experts are current facing in their efforts to try to understand what Mochizuki has achieved. Please be patient! As quid has noted, in due time, as experts eventually come to acquire a genuine understanding of the overall structure of the arguments in these papers, plenty of expositions for wide dissemination of the ideas will emerge. Mochizuki has put a lot of effort into providing indications of his motivation and insights throughout his papers (which are a serious challenge even for top experts to absorb), and to respect his remarkable effort it seems best to engage with it directly (whether through reading the surveys or the main papers).
Let me also try to give, in a modest complement to Minhyong Kim's great post, some additional remarks on Mochizuki's strategy. The idea that has led to the development of "Inter-universal Teichmuller theory for number fields" is certainly very beautiful, and was known to Mochizuki, along with the nature of the final estimate, already in 2000. (But let us recall, as a sane reminder of just how elusive the ABC conjecture has been, Miyaoka's flawed proof: did the idea of a Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau type bound involving arithmetic Chern numbers in Arakelov theory not seem equally beautiful, exciting, and promising?)
In brief, the main idea behind the IUTT-series is to construct, outside the rigid confines of algebraic geometry, a subtle object simulating a rank-1, Galois-stable quotient of $E[\ell]$. Here, $E/\mathbb{Q}$ is a (pretty much) arbitrary rational elliptic curve (and this is the main point: such a Galois-stable quotient will almost never exist!); and $\ell \geq 5$ is an auxiliary prime, generic for $E$ in a very mild sense, but otherwise free to optimize until the very final estimate. This is then applied to construct, in the non-linear discretized "Hodge-Arakelov theory," a comparison isomorphism between $(E^{\dagger}, <\ell)$ and $E[\ell]$, which is free of Gaussian poles at the bad places of $E$. For this then leads to a promising Galois-theoretic "Kodaira-Spencer map," as explained in Minhyong Kim's post, hopefully leading in the familiar way to the arithmetic Szpiro inequality for this very same elliptic curve: $\log{|\Delta_{\mathrm{min}}(E)|} \leq (6+\varepsilon) \log{N_E} + O_{\varepsilon}(1)$.
Let me, however, disagree with one point from M. Kim's post. My impression is that what Mochizuki calls an "initial $\Theta$-datum" - and which is, essentially, the pair of the rational elliptic curve $E$ (or equivalently, the $abc$-triple from the ABC-conjecture!) and, until the very final estimate in Ch. 2 of the fourth paper, the prime level $\ell$ - are fixed for good throughout the entire series of IUTT-papers. The deformation flavor of "Teichmuller theory" refers to dismantling the underlying number field, and not to the elliptic curve enhancement (indeed, in Mochizuki's dictionary with his own $p$-adic Teichmuller theory, it is the number field that corresponds to a hyperbolic curve; the elliptic curve enhancement corresponds to an "indigenous bundle" over the hyperbolic curve, and invites the anabelian philosophy via the \'etale fundamental group of the once-punctured elliptic curve). All the "Hodge theaters" associated to the initial $\Theta$-datum are isomorphic to one another, and form a vastly complicated $2$-dimensional non-commutative array - the "$\mathfrak{log}-\Theta$ lattice" - of non-ring theoretic translations between one another. What Mochizuki writes on p. 10 of IUTT-I is that the theory of $\Theta$-Hodge theaters "may be regarded as a sort of solution to the problem of constructing the global quotient $E[\ell] \twoheadrightarrow Q$" [needed for the application to arithmetic Kodaira-Spencer]. He does not seem to suggest that this is done by "moving the initial $E$ to a single elliptic curve via the intermediate case of an elliptic curve in general position," as M. Kim writes. (The term "elliptic curves in general position" indeed figures in Mochizuki's fourth paper, but it has a different, not-so-essential significance that comes through his entirely self-contained paper [GenEll], and whose purely technical purpose is to reduce the general ABC conjecture to the restricted version of Szpiro's inequality for $E$, in Thm. 1.10 of IUTT-IV, coming from the estimate in IUTT-III).
In particular, in sharp contrast to the Thue-Siegel-Roth tradition of Diophantine approximations, Mochizuki's program does not seem to compare different elliptic curves / $abc$-triples, all the way through to the key estimate $$ (*) \hspace{3cm} \log{|\Delta_{\mathrm{min}}(E)|} \leq \big(6 + \varepsilon + 200/\ell\big)\log{N_E} + 12\log(\ell\varepsilon^{-7}) $$ of IUTT-IV [asserted for all primes $\ell \geq 5$ that are generic for $E$ in a rather mild sense: essentially, $\ell$ has to be prime to the degenerate places and the $q$-parameters of $E$. Also, $\varepsilon \in (0,\epsilon_0)$ is arbitrary, with $\epsilon_0$ a numerical value. ] In this sense, Mochizuki's approach - nevermind the vast technical difficulties precipitated by the non-ring theoretic simulation of a global quotient $E[\ell] \twoheadrightarrow Q$ - is entirely direct and, consequently, effective.
So what does Mochizuki actually (claim to) prove?
Start with an $abc$-triple (co-prime rational integers with $a+b+c=0$). Since the discriminant $(\alpha-\beta)(\beta-\gamma)(\gamma-\alpha)$ of a cubic polynomial $x^3 + \cdots$ encapsulates exactly this equation, it is a profitable, traditional idea to interpret the $abc$-datum as the giving of the rational elliptic curve $E = E_{a,b,c}$ defined by the equation $y^2 = x(x-a)(x+b)$. The (apparently weaker, but virtually as powerful) ABC conjecture $abc < K_{\varepsilon}\cdot\mathrm{rad(abc)}^{3+\varepsilon}$ then translates into Szpiro's inequality: $\log{|\Delta_{\min}(E)|} \leq (6+\varepsilon)\log{N_E} + O_{\varepsilon}(1)$ between the minimal discriminant $\Delta_{\min}(E)$ and conductor $N_E$ of $E$ (which are, essentially, $(abc)^2$ and $\mathrm{rad}(abc)$). Pick the "auxiliary prime" $\ell \geq 5$ to be generic for $E$ in the sense that, essentially: (1) $\ell \nmid abc$; (2) $\ell$ does not divide the prime exponents in $abc$; (3) for $F := \mathbb{Q}( \sqrt{-1}, E[15] )$, the Galois representation of $G_F$ on $E[\ell]$ has full image $\mathrm{GL}_2 (\mathbb{Z}/\ell)$. [Conjecturally, the last condition should only exclude a finite list of primes, independent of $E$!] Then Mochizuki [IUTT-IV, Thm. 1.10] claims that (*) should hold for any $\varepsilon < \epsilon_0$.
This is the essential Diophantine estimate. Anything further than that [i.e., the deduction of the full ABC conjecture in IUTT-IV, Section 2] consists of standard, and relatively straightforward reductions [such as, e.g., the use of non-critical Belyi maps] elaborated in Mochizuki's self-contained paper [GenEll]: "Arithmetic elliptic curves in general position." Mochizuki indeed writes, in his first paper, that the auxiliary prime level $\ell \geq 5$ from the Hodge-Arakelov discretized non-linear comparison isomorphisms/correspondences $(E^{\dagger}, < \ell) \leftrightarrow E[\ell]$, will be chosen in the Diophantine application to be large, roughly on the order of the height of $E$. But this comes entirely through Theorem 3.8 in [GenEll]: there, the various non-divisibility properties are ensured by simply taking $\ell$ to exceed all the primes of bad reduction / all the $q$-parameters (also, the full Galois action is ensured unconditionally). In (*), $\ell$ could be any prime satisfying the mentioned non-divisibility conditions. (This, by the way, is what I considered highly disturbing).
My apology if I have misunderstood - and misrepresented - the points from Mochizuki's papers that I have alluded to.
I want to point out a bibliographical information that perhaps is not very well-known and can be taken as "evidence" for the possibility of applying anabelian geometry to the ABC conjecture successfully. However, I am not claiming that this is related in any sort of way to Mochizuki's work.
Here is the fact: There is a $\pi_1$ proof of the function field Szpiro conjecture (over the complex numbers, as far as I know). The proof is indeed easy and conceptually clear, you can find a nice exposition of it in some (expository) paper of Zhang, whose title is lost somewhere in my memories. (EDIT: the paper is "Geometry of algebraic points").
Anyway, I can tell you what is the key point of the argument. Let E be an elliptic fibration over the projective line L over the complex numbers. Assume that E has only multiplicative bad reduction. You can read the order of the discriminant at a point of L from the Kodaira type of the fibre, which in turn can be recovered in terms of monodromy representations of the fundamental group of L minus the points with bad fibres: smooth fibres have trivial monodromy, and the monodromy of singular fibres is determined by Dehn twists (assuming multiplicative reduction). You can look at all these local representations at once, after choosing loops to link bad points to some generic point p of L and then study the image of the global monodromy representation on the homology of the fibre above p. Choosing loops appropriately gives the usual commutator relation which in the image of the global representation gives a relation R=1 among generators of the local reps (and they "know" what the discriminant is). Everything here is inside $SL_2(Z)=Aut(Z^2)=Aut(H_1(E_p,Z))$ which acts on the real plane, and up to scalars it acts on the projective real line whose universal covering you already know (yes, the real line). One can lift the relation R=1 to a relation among automorphisms of the real line to get a relation R'=1' where now 1' knows the number of terms appearing on R, that is to say the number of singular fibres, which is the conductor of E in this setting. Then the Szpiro bound can be recovered from the relation R'=1'.
And there you have, a derivative-free proof of the Szpiro conjecture for function fields (a bit shocking at least for me the first time I saw it). All the diophantine information being supplied by fundamental groups.
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NORTH KOREA (CNN) -- The Obama administration calculates it's likely North Korea may test fire mobile ballistic missiles at any time, based on the most recent intelligence showing Pyongyang probably has completed launch preparations, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The administration believes a test launch could happen without North Korea issuing a standard notice to commercial aviation and maritime shipping warning them to stay away from the missile's path, according to the official, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.
He cautioned most of the information comes from satellite imagery, so it's impossible to reach a definitive conclusion because the United States has no means to gather information on the ground.
"We hope they issue a notification, but at this point we don't expect it. We are working on the assumption they won't, " the official said.
He said the launch could be "imminent," but also cautioned that the United States "simply doesn't know."
The official, along with a Pentagon official, said that the United States has been able to keep satellites over the suspected launch area for most of the past week.
The United States thinks the missiles remain at a point about halfway down the eastern coast of North Korea and are about 10 miles inland.
Imagery has been impeded by some bad weather, which means there is less than perfect knowledge about what is happening on the ground. But based on what the United States has seen, the belief is that the missiles have received their liquid fuel and are ready for launch.
After any launch, U.S. satellites and radars in the region would be able to calculate the trajectory of missiles within minutes and quickly conclude whether they are on a test path headed for open ocean or potentially headed for land areas such as Japan.
The United States and Japan would then have to decide whether to try to shoot the missiles down, the officials said.
Also Tuesday, the top U.S. commander in the Pacific called repeated North Korean violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions forbidding the "building and testing" of long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons "a clear and direct threat to U.S. national security and regional peace and stability."
"A major conflict in Korea could have unpredictable, long term and far reaching impacts due to the central location of the Korean peninsula in Northeast Asia and the vital importance of Northeast Asian trade to the global economy," said Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.
The admiral spoke at a Senate Armed Services hearing and submitted testimony to the committee. He said he's confident that the United States would be able to help defend U.S. forces and its friends. He acknowledged the importance of China's role in reducing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The hearing came as North Korea issued its latest dispatch of ominous rhetoric Tuesday, telling foreigners in South Korea they should take steps to protect themselves in the event of a conflict.
"Kim Jong Un's stated emphasis on economic development and promises of economic growth have so far yielded little, and are undermined by North Korean missile launches and nuclear tests that lead to further sanctions and international isolation," Locklear said, referring to North Korea's leader.
"North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, its illicit sales of conventional arms, and its ongoing proliferation activities remain a threat to regional stability and underscore the requirement for effective missile defense," he said.
The admiral was asked whether there's ever been a time of greater tension among North Korea, South Korea and the United States since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s.
"I would agree in my recollection, I don't know a greater time," he said.
Asked about China and its longtime close relationship with North Korea, he said the country could play a key role in persuading the North Korean government to engage in "restraint," but "they could do more."
Senators expressed concerns, skepticism and outright criticism of China. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, called the country "a communist dictatorship" that fears individual freedoms. Locklear regards China as neither a friend nor a foe.
He said that sometimes, China can be "more nuanced" than the United States, and he noted some reporting that the leadership in China has made some statements about the issue.
Over the weekend, Chinese President Xi Jinping was quoted as saying that no nation "should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain." While he didn't mention North Korea, the comments were seen as a reference to Pyongyang.
"There no benefit to the Chinese of having this type of activity occurring on their borders, no possible benefit that I can see from this. So they will, I believe, in time, work this problem to their national interest just like we do and the South Koreans do," Locklear said.
Meanwhile, the storm of warlike words coming from Pyongyang appears to have rattled Americans, with more than four in 10 saying they see the reclusive nation as an immediate threat to the United States, a new CNN/ORC International poll shows. That's up 13 percentage points in less than a month, CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said.
"If North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted to get the attention of the American public, his strategy is starting to work," Holland said.
North Korea's unnerving message advising foreigners to secure shelter or evacuate in case of hostilities came as Japan set up missile defenses in Tokyo and North Korean workers failed to turn up for work in the industrial complex jointly operated by North and South Korea.
In the statement published by state-run media Tuesday, the North's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee reiterated accusations that Washington and Seoul are seeking to provoke a war with Pyongyang.
"Once a war is ignited on the peninsula, it will be an all-out war," the committee said, adding that North Korea doesn't want foreigners in South Korea to "fall victim" to a conflict.
But staff at the British Embassy in Seoul appeared unimpressed.
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6 Badass Movie Scenes With Horrifying Unseen Consequences
#3. Fight Club
What You See
Edward Norton's alter ego starts an underground boxing ring that eventually conspires to blow up the headquarters of several credit card companies. The buildings are destroyed in the middle of the night, because the only people inside are maintenance staff, and they all know about the plan and have evacuated to safety anyway.
But Wait a Minute ...
All right, so they evacuated the buildings. Great. But that's the only precaution they took, and we're pretty sure there's more than one step on the "responsible building demolition" checklist.
Just take a look at movie's final scene:
You see or hear about a dozen buildings go down, and every one of them is a massive skyscraper. Those are some pretty big explosions -- much bigger than what you'd see in a controlled implosion -- and that debris is not going to tumble into a bunch of neat little piles. It's going to be hurtling in every direction. Now, they couldn't have known how callous demolishing skyscrapers for laughs would look to everyone just two years later -- the movie was made in 1999. But for the sake of comparison, the rubble from the World Trade Center towers spread far enough to damage about 20 nearby buildings -- eight of them beyond repair. That was two buildings. This was a dozen or so.
So what was going on down at street level? Well, have you ever been downtown at night? The streets are far from deserted. Homeless people live there. Ladies of the evening ply their trade. Drunken college students wander from club to club, vomiting on their frat-bros as they go. And there's plenty of vehicle traffic as well: taxis, emergency services, cars delivering midnight falafel to your stoned roommate ...
This is Chicago at night. Notice how it isn't empty.
All of those people would have been crushed by the many, many tons of debris. Even if we're generous and assume that the Fight Club somehow managed to shut down several blocks' worth of road traffic without drawing suspicion, it would have been impossible to stop pedestrians from wandering around. Hell, even just the collateral damage from rubble hitting other buildings (like hotels, which are usually located where? That's right: downtown) would definitely be enough to rack up a pretty sizable death toll.
We guess the safety precautions the Fight Club took in the rest of the movie don't apply when their victims are faceless. Which is kind of ironic, considering that the film's message is about fighting back against a society that makes you faceless. Oops.
"Now remember, the first rule of Fight Club is to never, ever talk about all the thousands of people we just murdered to get out of debt."
#2. Batman Begins
What You See
In this origin story, Bruce Wayne trains to become a crime fighter, then uses his new skills to stop Gotham City from being destroyed by a really bad drug trip.
But Wait a Minute ...
At the end of Bruce Wayne's training with the League of Shadows, he's asked to execute a prisoner to prove his loyalty. Shocked by this request (how could he have known something called the League of Shadows would be evil?!), he refuses to kill the man. This is a defining moment in his life: His rejection of lethal force is what separates him from the criminals he hunts down. And it's an ideal he unflinchingly sticks to throughout the- oh wait, he sets the building on fire to escape, which triggers a series of explosions that clearly kills several people. Then we see the entire building explode. You know, that same building where we just saw all the other prisoners still being kept in cages.
Pictured: Batman's idea of a nonlethal approach.
But hey, at that point he was still new to the whole superhero gig, so we guess we can cut him some slack. He got better at the no-killing thing by the end of the movie, right? Like when he stopped the elevated train the bad guy was on by getting Sgt. Gordon to, uh, blow up the tracks and send it plummeting to the ground in a fireball. That seems a little excessive. Couldn't he have just shut the train down, or knocked the bad guy unconscious, or done literally anything besides sending hundreds of tons of flaming shrapnel crashing into a populated area? (And it was populated; you see several people milling about, watching Gordon do his part).
"What do you mean, 'Why didn't I use the brakes?' What the fuck is a 'brakes'?!"
But even that pales in comparison to what the villains accomplished, which was to release a hallucinogenic gas, designed to incite people to murder in their fear and confusion, across the Narrows, an island region of Gotham City. Not only did the gas hit a large number of civilians, but the Narrows was also occupied by pretty much all of the escaped lunatics and serial killers in the city, as well as every member of the riot police. And the only cure for this gas would take weeks to mass produce. So, how does the movie resolve this nightmare situation?
It doesn't. At the end of the film, Gordon casually mentions that "the Narrows are lost" and that half the escaped mental patients are still on the loose. Batman says he'll round them up, because he's just all Batman like that, and that's the end of it. No details on what happened to, say, the hundreds of guys with automatic weapons who currently think all children are demons (remember the scene where a gassed policeman takes aim at a couple of innocent kids?)
So, uh, everybody on the island died, we guess? Gee, that's kind of a downer ending.
"Yeah, so ... that was the worst mass murder in history, but you got revenge on your old teacher, so we'll call it a wash."
What You See
During X2's climax, the genocidal anti-mutant villain attempts to kill all the mutants on the planet with the aid of a special machine and a brainwashed Professor X. His plan is stopped by the genocidal anti-human villain, who then attempts to kill all the humans on the planet with the aid of a special machine and a brainwashed Professor X, before being stopped by the X-Men.
But Wait a Minute ...
Both plans come close to succeeding: During the mutant-killing attempt, we see the X-Men suffer paralyzing pain. During the human-killing attempt, the human villains go through the same terrible effects. Since both attempts are stopped, all the main characters survive ... but everyone else on Earth couldn't have been so lucky.
Remember, Professor X's machine is designed to reach out to every mind on the planet (we see people in the White House knocked unconscious by the attack, even though the machine is in northern Canada). The attack lasts only about a minute or so, but there are plenty of everyday activities that would end in devastation if those involved were rendered unconscious or otherwise inoperative for 60 seconds. For starters, there would be hundreds of thousands of traffic accidents. Most every pilot on Earth would lose control of his plane and come crashing to the ground. Don't forget about doctors in the middle of important operations. Skydivers would be screwed, too. Anyone out for a swim would drown. Dozens of couples experimenting with erotic asphyxiation would -- well, you get the idea.
Really, the only group of people who would have suffered no casualties would be the ones sitting at home and browsing the Internet.
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And it gets worse. The X-Men are all young and athletic, yet they barely survive the attack. So what about the elderly? Infants? The infirm? If Wolverine -- a man whose body is made entirely of muscle, metal and invincible mutant cells -- barely resisted the mental assault, we doubt Grandma is making it through unscathed.
Although "killed by a supervillain's Mind Murder Machine" certainly beats "fell in the shower."
Add it all up and you have one of the greatest disasters in human history. Professor X's chat with the president of the United States at the end of the film doesn't sound quite as sympathetic when you realize the commander-in-chief is getting ready to address a nation in mourning.
"Humans and mutants must learn to coexist. Also, I'm super sorry about those mutants that killed off half the population yesterday."
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