Marcel Scherer resolves the Smith-Ward problem!

Yesterday, Marcel Scherer (a postdoc in our group here at the Technion) published his new exciting preprint A Three-Dimensional Operator System without the Smith–Ward Property . This paper contains a solution, in the negative, to the long-standing Smith-Ward problem. This is exciting news, since this problem is open since 1980 and has resisted the attacks of [ ]