the preprint [1] is done;
i declare it to be done.
one problem solved, another problem open:
where the heck am i going to submit it?
this, i vow: apart from formatting it for submission to a journal, i will no longer edit it, for its quality will only deteriorate if i add further "ideas which sounded good at the time."
also: it's time to write another preprint, and i'll need to cite the first preprint. it's time that the first one become a published paper: something worthy of being cited.
after all, would you trust the main result in one preprint, which depends crucially on a result in another (unpublished) preprint?
admittedly, i would have my suspicions ..
[1] this is the one cut out from my thesis. if you're still waiting on the sch0enflies result(s), then sorry: you'll have to wait another month or two.
1 comment:
Put preprint #1 on ArXiv and give its reference number when you cite it in preprint #2. This way, the referee of #2 will have an opportunity to check if the result from #1 is correct [whether or not they use this opportunity is up to them]. They will also have more confidence in #1 knowing that it was widely distributed a while ago.
In fact, ArXiv sometimes works better than actual refereeing. I remember seeing a paper that was published in a respectable journal in 2007, posted on ArXiv at the end of 2008, and soon thereafter withdrawn for a critical error.
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