Newsgroups: sci.math
From: haoyuep@aol.com (Dan Hoey)
Date: 15 Jan 2004 04:30:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Any news on odd perfect numbers?

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Mark Griffith asked:

> Anyone know of any recent work on the odd perfect number
> question?

Oddly enough, a paper claiming to prove the conjecture has
appeared, dated Thu, 8 Jan 2004, at
  http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0401052/
I haven't got the background to tell whether it's good or bad.