From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:18:41 -0700

David,

I know only of one. But quite a remarkable one!

You probably heard of Gregory Perelman's three papers on arxiv that
solved Poincare conjecture. The papers didn't cover all the small gaps
in the proof which led to counter-claims by two Chinese contenders.

The situation stirred quite a wave of emotions and led to Perelman's
refusal to accept the Fields Prize in 2006 in Madrid.

Ari Belenkiy



On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:32 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:18:44 +0000
>
> "These are subtle things. Pre-publication on arxiv is precarious - it
> pre-opens a Pandora's box of priority disputes.”
>
> But does it though? arXiv has been going for almost 25 years now and
> has well over a million papers on it.  Is there any evidence that
> there is a significant problem with priority disputes?  Or more
> specifically that there are more priority disputes here than in the
> general literature?
>
> David