How to pass on research posthumously I've been independently researching math, for a while in the homeless community. While I am generally safe, situational realities (weather, equipment stress, health and especially how cities can discard possessions) are weighing on me more heavily as I prepare to publish work. I have as much on paper as digitally, and I'm working on getting notebooks photographed.
What is a responsible/automatic way, should I (e.g.) die suddenly, to pass on research work? I'm a bit unusual in the sense that people don't understand why I'm homeless (so...more isolated, I have no peers it would be responsible to use), and it seems dubious a university would take me -- an unknown -- seriously.
I know, e.g., that gmail can transfer ownership to another entity after an inactivity timer expires, but that could easily go wrong. A lawyer doesn't make sense; I have no estate and the city would get my stuff first.
I'm not concerned about credit as much as passing on the work. Collaboration could work; I just don't know how to escrow / dead-man switch this so someone actually sees it.
 A: Create a public repository on Github and upload your files.  Github was designed with software in mind (it is primarily a version control system) but it can be used for pretty much anything.  It works best with plain text files (e.g. txt, md, tex); but will happily handle images and pdf.  Here's a maths example from a (randomly selected) user called arnaugamez.  There may be a limit on storage, but if there is I haven't found it yet.
As for longevity, Github seems to take this pretty seriously as evidenced by the Arctic Code Vault which beats any back up plan I have...
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A lawyer doesn't make sense; I have no estate and the city would get my stuff first.

Assuming you had the money to pay a lawyer, or could find a lawyer/law firm that would do this pro-bono given your status - I believe that actually does makes sense. You see, you do have an estate: Your research endeavors, online accounts, notes and such are part of your estate. It really doesn't matter that the city would get your physical belongings (although an appropriately-empowered  lawyer might be able to help with that too).
A: Your situation reminds me of Evariste Galois. Another answer indicates how you can post your notes publicly, which I would recommend as the place to start. But a key point in the story of Galois, is that he put what he had in a letter to a friend, and so there was someone specific to get the work put into an academic journal:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois#Final_days
A: You could use a research notes repository such as Figshare or Zenodo. There is the option to make the contents private, but I would just make them publicly visible right away, so that the whole issue of a switch that enables upon death does not arise. These repositories have a date stamp, so your priority is safe (even though you mention you don't care about credit). The license you will want to use is a "creative commons" license which allows others to use your work freely, so the issue of "transfer of ownership" is also resolved.
Search engines (Google Scholar) will index your repository, so others searching for a topic will find your contribution and be able to make use of it.
A: Write a research article and have it published. Or at least an Arxiv preprint. This is the way mathematicians communicate and clean up their work to make it readable for their peers. I doubt anyone will want to decipher your notes, unless you are Grothendieck, so it is up to you to communicate with the accepted language of the community.
The work is split in sufficiently small units so that whatever result does not constitute in a publishable article is unlikely to have a major impact.
