I am writing a short paper in the area of combinatorics.

When the paper is complete, I would like to be able to submit it to arXiv.

The reasons that I would like to submit to arXiv are:

1. To obtain a date and time stamp from a central authority so that I may prove the work is mine.
2. To promote access to the paper under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license

Although I have created an account on arXiv, because I am not affiliated to any academic institution, it appears that it might be difficult to get the paper accepted by arXiv.

For example see,

arxiv.org/help/submit

The following information is also required for submission:

Institutional affiliation for the author(s) must be provided. Official report number(s) from the author(s) institution(s) must be provided.

Also the following blog article does not appear encouraging:

Does The Arxiv Blacklist Authors ?

Does anyone on mathoverflow have any advice on how to submit to arXiv (or a similar database) without an academic affiliation?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I am writing a short paper in the area of combinatorics.

When the paper is complete, I would like to be able to submit it to arXiv.

The reasons that I would like to submit to arXiv are:

1. To obtain a date and time stamp from a central authority so that I can prove the work is mine.
2. To promote access to the paper under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license

Although I have created an account on arXiv, because I am not affiliated to any academic institution, it appears that it might be difficult to get the paper accepted by arXiv.

For example see,

arxiv.org/help/submit

The following information is also required for submission:

Institutional affiliation for the author(s) must be provided. Official report number(s) from the author(s) institution(s) must be provided.

Also the following blog article does not appear encouraging:

Does The Arxiv Blacklist Authors ?

Does anyone on mathoverflow have any advice on how to submit to arXiv (or a similar database) without an academic affiliation?

Thanks in advance for any advice.