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This practical (albeit psychological) concern came to mind almost immediately after I was asked early on to be on the referee team for the IUT papers.
I have great respect for Mochizuki’s mathematical talent, and no doubt in the sincerity of his belief that he has a proof of the main result.
But I could see that the referees would not only have to check the details of an extremely long work written in a very obscure style (which didn’t provide insightful reasons for confidence in the approach being used).
They would also have to engage in a herculean effort to get the writing substantially changed.
It was too much, so I declined and communicated my concerns to the editorial board.
(I recommended immediate rejection with a demand that the work be completely rewritten before it could be reconsidered.)
I am very sorry to see all these years later that neither the referees who were eventually obtained nor the editorial board obtained any real improvement on the clarity of the way the material is presented, not even at least an Introduction presenting key new insights in some conventional manner
(to compensate for the way the technical material is presented).
I hope the editors of PRIMS and the senior faculty at RIMS will reflect on their responsibility to the field of mathematics, and reconsider what they are doing.
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