Timeline for Papers on arXiv solving the same problem at the same time
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| Mar 24, 2021 at 11:37 | comment | added | Hollis Williams | I believe in the story of Brian Greene ''the other group'' working on the same problem was Edward Witten. | |
| Aug 26, 2019 at 23:45 | answer | added | Yonatan N | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 26, 2019 at 12:47 | answer | added | Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 22:10 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Aug 24, 2019 at 17:35 | answer | added | Arun Debray | timeline score: 20 | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 15:38 | answer | added | Paata Ivanishvili | timeline score: 18 | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 15:37 | comment | added | Terry Tao | A recent example is arxiv.org/abs/1908.05314 and arxiv.org/abs/1908.05589 . I was also involved in another near-synchronous situation in arxiv.org/abs/1408.4505 and arxiv.org/abs/1408.5110 [technically off by one day though]. (But in both cases the authors had become aware of each other's work shortly beforehand and were able to coordinate the arXiv submission.) | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 12:01 | comment | added | Ofir Gorodetsky | I remember an instance where there was a substantial overlap between two works posted to the arXiv almost on the same time, see Tao's announcement on his blog and Pyber's comment in the comments section: terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/linear-approximate-groups . | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 11:59 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @Sam that case was purposely synchronised, I think, for arXiv release, though it was possibly independent breakthroughs that were reported in blogs before then (one could check Ellenberg's blog to check, I'm not going to do it right now) | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 11:50 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 24, 2019 at 10:59 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 28 | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 10:13 | comment | added | YCor | I once did this in agreement with the "concurrent" team (I don't know if "one and the same problem", however there was a significant intersection). | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 3:08 | answer | added | Michael Engelhardt | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 24, 2019 at 1:13 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | I believe this happened with the Ellenberg/Gijswijt papers in the Ellenberg-Gijswijt-Croot-Lev-Pach breakthrough on the capset problem. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 23:52 | comment | added | Michael Engelhardt | I seem to recall Brian Greene telling a story about his collaborators and him working on the same problem as another group simultaneously, and they ended up synchronizing their arXiv submissions. I'll look up whether my memory is accurate in 2 hours or so. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 23:30 | history | asked | Paata Ivanishvili | CC BY-SA 4.0 |