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Stream: practice: communication

Topic: Old preprint not kept on the arXiv


view this post on Zulip David Michael Roberts (Jan 16 2025 at 04:11):

I came across something odd today. J.-L. Brylinski's book cites a 1992 Aarhus University preprint for a result, and lo and behold it's on the arXiv, and one of the authors even has a pdf on his website, of the published version. However, it was published in 2000, and the copy on the arXiv is v2 (from 2000), and the v1 copy https://arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9202023v1 (from 1992) is not there! The note on the paper on the arXiv says how it was updated, and a theorem got downgraded to a conjecture. Not the bit I needed, I think, which was a construction, but this construction is very hard to spot in the v2, to the point I'm not sure it's even there.

view this post on Zulip David Michael Roberts (Jan 16 2025 at 04:12):

I've never seen this before, and I do wonder if the paper was streamlined for publication, but it's not clear if a copy of the 30-year-old flawed preprint still exists...

view this post on Zulip David Michael Roberts (Jan 16 2025 at 04:15):

Aarhus Maths dept archive doesn't go back far enough: https://math.au.dk/en/research/publications/publication-series/archive/pp