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> withing a short time frame of each other are usually understood to be cases of parallel invention I see what you are saying, but I don't think it's that cut
by divbit 10y ago
> withing a short time frame of each other are usually understood to be cases of parallel invention
I see what you are saying, but I don't think it's that cut and dry, otherwise I could just take someone else's work from yesterday (or whatever a short time frame is), and re-solve it (easily -since now the tricky parts have been revealed) and post it today - tada, I parallel invented it!
- beevai142 10y agoTypically the work in a paper, if substantial, is done over a long time, so even if the main destination ends up being same, it's unlikely the route and sidestops are the same. So often you can wriggle a little bit and expand the paper sideways, so that it is still publishable work even if the other work is given priority. It's actually not that rare to have similar papers appear in arXiv one or two weeks later after you submit --- to me, it happened several times within last few years. In these cases, it is possible to see that the approach differs enough (and moreover, often you know the people in question, or you know someone who does).
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