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Direct links to arxiv PDFs are discouraged, since they are immutable. If the author uploads a v2 to correct an error, your link will still point to the old vers
by sbierwagen 4y ago
Direct links to arxiv PDFs are discouraged, since they are immutable. If the author uploads a v2 to correct an error, your link will still point to the old version.
- spekcular 4y agoNo, that link will always point to the most recent version. For example, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.03562.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.03562.pdf gives version 5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03562 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03562, as noted in the left margin of the first page.
- sbierwagen 4y agoOh whoops.
- sedatk 4y agoEven if it was a link for a specific version, I'd still post it as arxiv's landing page isn't designed for those who need to jump to the content right away. It's extremely cluttered and hard to navigate. I couldn't care less if the PDF got some arbitrary fixes in an unknown future. That'd be arxiv's problem.