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Patrick Nicodemus (Jun 29 2025 at 19:42):Hi, folks. I am a research mathematician interested in category theory and its applications in the theory of programming languages and in homological algebra.
I have finished this paper on fibrations between bicategories I am working on and I'm ready to submit it to the Arxiv modulo proofreading for typos. Can someone from this forum please endorse me to upload PDF's to the Arxiv? I will post the paper here so you can see what I am trying to upload. You don't have to post here in the thread publicly, just DM me so I can send you my referral code.
fibrations_between_bicategories.pdf
David Michael Roberts (Jun 29 2025 at 23:53):@Patrick Nicodemus I will say that it needs an abstract in the pdf. I think that the arXiv's automated tooling for picking up submissions that don't fit the arXiv's standards does do checks for things like: is there a bibliography? is there an abstract? is it formatted (approximately) like a research paper? And people expect such a thing, so it would help get better traction for your paper. The arXiv metadata will ask for an abstract, so write one now and put it in the paper! Best of luck. At a very first glance, the thing looks nice, but I haven't had even a cursory read, I haven't time right now
David Michael Roberts (Jun 29 2025 at 23:58):And I would use \setcounter{secnumdepth}{n} for an appropriate low value of n in your preamble, so that your theorem and definition numbers come out to be 1,2,...., not 0.1, 0.2, ..... (probably n=1, just experiment.)
Patrick Nicodemus (Jun 30 2025 at 00:44):Thanks very much, good feedback.
John Baez (Jun 30 2025 at 04:49):A paper also typically includes the author's name and some sort of contact information, so you should include that.
Kevin Carlson (Jun 30 2025 at 17:06):As another quite infrastructural point, the ArXiv will want you to upload your .tex, not your .pdf. Trying to upload a PDF directly makes moderation much slower and your submission look much less serious.
John Baez (Jul 01 2025 at 07:19):Indeed.
Patrick Nicodemus (Jul 01 2025 at 17:39):Kevin Carlson said:
As another quite infrastructural point, the ArXiv will want you to upload your .tex, not your .pdf. Trying to upload a PDF directly makes moderation much slower and your submission look much less serious.
That will be a problem because I decided to use this paper as an opportunity to learn Typst, a newer typesetting software. If it's rejected for this reason it's a shame but a good lesson for the future
Oscar Cunningham (Jul 01 2025 at 18:00):Can pandoc do typst to tex?
Kevin Carlson (Jul 01 2025 at 18:02):Ah, that's unfortunate. It won't be rejected, I don't think, but it's definitely discouraged.