Timeline for Is it all right to invite a professor to cowrite a paper
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| Jun 13, 2020 at 10:28 | comment | added | François Brunault | If your work raises new questions and you feel that the professor's expertise would be useful to solve them, then it is natural to ask him to collaborate. | |
| Jun 13, 2020 at 3:12 | history | edited | Zach Hunter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 23:26 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | As others have said: you should certainly get in touch with the author and send a draft, if for no other reason than feedback. Also, FWIW, I have had the experience of feeling "I can prove the results, but the writing would be improved if I coauthored with Person X". | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:54 | comment | added | Zach Hunter | @NateEldredge as he would have more experience with the field, and with writing papers, even minimal involvement from him could help me write a higher quality paper in a shorter amount time. meanwhile at least one benefit for him would be getting another publication without as much effort? (I am not yet too familiar with the politics of academia so I'm not sure how valuable this is too him, this is why I'm hesitant as I don't want to be a charity case) | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:33 | comment | added | LSpice | I am currently on roughly the other end of this question. I was flattered to be asked, but said that I hadn't contributed anything beyond the original paper, and so didn't merit co-author status. The asker wasn't a student, but a colleague; so, when he insisted, I relented. Had he been a student, I would almost certainly have insisted that he take sole authorship. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:26 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | This could also be appropriate for Academia.SE. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:25 | comment | added | YCor | An option is to start a discussion on the subject, for instance sending a draft, and not evoke a suggestion of collaboration at the first email, but rather insist on mathematical questions. If the person you're asking gets involved in the discussion, at some point you could suggest a join project. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:22 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | If you've already proved the result, what would be left for the collaborator to do? | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 22:21 | history | asked | Zach Hunter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |