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 ?][1]


Does anyone on math<i>overflow</i> have any advice on how to submit to arXiv (or a similar database) without an academic affiliation?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

  [1]: http://www.scientificblogging.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/does_arxiv_blacklist_authors_help_finding_out