Is it a reasonable way to write a research article assuming truth of a conjecture?

A research article which assumes the truth of a conjecture also counts (indirectly) as research on the conjecture itself. If you show that certain results follow from a conjecture and those results are later shown to be false, then the original conjecture would have been shown to be false. Another possibility is that the results that you derive could be shown to be equivalent to the original conjecture, in which case independent confirmation of those results will prove the original conjecture. Research of the sort that you are proposing increases the attack surface of the original problem.

Whether or not the result will be publishable is a question which can't be answered in the abstract and is best left to the editor of whatever journal you intend to submit it to.


As pointed out in the comments, this is common in number theory. Since the OP wants to write a paper, I give some concrete examples. If you google "Assume the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis" you get 4900 results, including theorems of Hecke (1918), Deuring (1933), Mordell (1934), and Heilbronn (1934) all assuming either the Riemann hypothesis or that it's false. Here [PK07] is a more recent paper (published in Number Theory) that assumes the generalized RH. Here [CC15] and here [Ju21] are two other examples, and many more on Google. Hopefully this will help the OP figure out how to write what they want to write.

[PK07] Park and Kwon - Class number one problem for normal CM-fields

[CC15] Carneiro, Chandee, and Milinovich - A note on the zeros of zeta and L-functions

[Ju21] Just - On upper bounds for the count of elite primes


This is not fundamentally different from the (fairly subtle) question of whether any mathematical result in general is "interesting". Publication typically requires (at least) a result that is both true and interesting. From a logical viewpoint, there is absolutely no problem with proving the truth of a theorem that includes a conjecture in its hypothesis. It is a theorem like any other.

Meanwhile, a major factor in what makes a result uninteresting for publication is if it can be trivially derived from simpler results. This is not an objective characteristic but a time-dependent fact of human knowledge.

In your situation, if and when the conjecture is resolved, we know it will be possible to derive your theorem trivially from a simpler result. Namely, if the conjecture is true, there will be a simpler theorem that omits the conjecture from the hypothesis, from which your theorem will follow trivially. And if the conjecture is false, your theorem will be derivable as a tautology. But I would argue that until we know which obtains, your theorem is not yet uninteresting.