arXiv:1204.0162physics.pop-ph
A way to fight your traffic tickets. The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California. In view of enormous, extremely surprising and completely unexpected public interest to this work, we have added an appendix answering the two most common questions.
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The paper "The Proof of Innocence" linked to there has a wonderful sentence in the abstract (https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162): "The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California."
Discussed 5 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842033 The original submission date for the paper is interesting (http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162) ... Yes, it is real: - http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR041312_trafficticket.html - http://www.caida.org/~dima/
The paper was submitted April 1st according to http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162 April fools perhaps?
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Better to post a link to the paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162 Note also that the Fermat's Library copy is version 1 of the paper; it was subsequently updated and version 2 is available on arXiv.
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