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Published November 22, 2020 | Version v97
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Goldbach's Conjecture — A Route to the Inconsistency of Arithmetic

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This paper proves an inconsistency in Peano arithmetic (PA). We show that for a strengthened form of the strong Goldbach conjecture and its negation, assuming either statement implies that we have a proof of that statement. In other words, the paper actually does not solve the conjecture, but it proves that it does. This contradiction is the consequence of two properties of a specific set which we use to reformulate the conjecture.

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