Instructions for authors

Authors are welcome to submit preprints in Jordan theory (Jordan algebras, pairs and triple systems) and related areas to the archives. The preprints may be in DVI (.dvi), PDF (.pdf), or PostScript (.ps) format. Here is the procedure.

Prepare a file named 'info' containing basic information about the paper in the following plain ASCII format.

Author: P. J. Author, J. V. N. Author, E. W. Author

Title: On the speciality of the Albert algebra

Email: pj@phys.uni.de,  john@math.ac.hu,
e-w-author@institute.edu 

Abstract: In this paper we prove that the Albert algebra is
rather special. Our methods involve a generalization of the 
quantum mechanical formalism in Hilbert spaces over the field
F<sub>2</sub> with two elements.
<P>
As a corollary, we show that the Albert algebra is, in
fact, so special that it deserves to be called exceptional.

The Abstract field should contain an abstract of the paper, together with any auxiliary information about handling the files. Please DO NOT USE TeX codes such as dollar signs in the abstract, since net browsers do not (yet) know how to deal with them. You may mark up the Abstract with HTML commands, as in the HTML specification. For example, the abstract may contain multiple paragraphs, separated by the symbol <P>, and text in italics or boldface is produced by enclosing it between <i> ... </i> or <b> ... </b>.

• DVI
  • Advantages: The files are small, and may be created by any TeX installation, even if it is not the newest version.
  • Disadvantages: Despite the name, the files are not entirely device-independent. They require a TeX-installation at the site of the reader which contains all the fonts specified in the DVI-file. Therefore, please use only the basic Computer Modern and AMS-TeX fonts at standard point sizes. Even the Times Roman fonts (ptmr) are not available on many machines. Also, illustrations cannot be transmitted in a DVI-file, so if your preprint contains figures, you have to use a different format.
• PDF
  • Advantages: These files are relatively small and can contain non-standard fonts (provided they are embedded into the document) and also arbitrary figures. They can be viewed and printed with the freely available application Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • Disadvantages: For creating a PDF-file from a DVI-file, one needs either the commercial software Adobe Acrobat Distiller (expensive) or Ghostscript. So far, PDF-files generated by Ghostscript are much too big and not of good quality. A third possibility is bypassing the DVI-file entirely and using pdftex or pdflatex, generally available in up-to-date TeX installations on Unix machines. So far, this option is not available for Textures on Macintosh computers, but this may (and hopefully will) change in the future.
• Postscript
  • Advantages: As with PDF, one is not restricted in the choice of fonts or figures. (PDF is just a compressed and optimized version of PostScript).
  • Disadvantages: The files tend to be large; as a rule of thumb, five times as big as a DVI file. Viewing them on screen requires Ghostscript; a TeX installation like Textures is no help. Printing them requires usually a PostScript printer. There are often difficulties in printing due to a specification of paper size in the PostScript file which may not be available; e.g., when American paper (letter) is specified but European paper (A4) is in the printer, or vice versa. Therefore, be sure not to specify the paper size when creating PostScript files for uploading.

When your paper is ultimately published we would greatly appreciate being informed. At that time we will remove the preprint and leave a pointer to the journal in which it was published, or leave the preprint in the archive, depending on your preference. You may of course also withdraw the preprint at any time, by simply instructing me in an email to do so.

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