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[Sep. 15th, 2007|09:12 am] |
E немецком шпрингеровском журнале K-Theory Vol. 36, pp. 327-343 (2005), дана ссылка:
Krukenberg, J. and Weinberg, S.: Higher G-Signatures of Auschwitz manifolds,. K-Theory 7 (2) (1993), 101–132. 26.
Singer, I. M.: Some remarks on operator ...
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: Matthias Kreck said...
Dear Anonymus,
I immediately cycled to the library and checked the reference, where instead of "Liptschitz" the word "Auschwitz" stands. I phoned Springer to hear what their explanation is. Here is the answer:
ERRATUM to K-Theory, Vol. 36 (2005), pp. 327-343
In the article by D. Basu entitled “K-Theory with R/Z Coefficients and Von Neumann Algebras”, published in K-Theory Vol. 36, pp. 327-343 (2005), one reference is inaccurate, as a result of a data corruption prior to submission, that affected both the names of the authors and the title of that reference. The author wishes unreservedly to apologize to Jonathan Rosenberg and Shmuel Weinberger for this error overlooked in the proof stage.
The correct reference is :
Rosenberg, J and Weinberger, S., Higher G-Signatures of Lipschitz Manifolds. K-Theory 7 (2) (1993) 101-132.
Devraj Basu
June 2007
I am shocked about the level the fight against Springer has reached.
Matthias Kreck
September 10, 2007 2:50 PM
Anonymous said...
How can a publisher, who pays
copy editors to to do a careful proofreading of the manuscript, let
a reference to an author name be replaced by one to a general in the
SS, with a different alphabetical order, miss the "typo" Lipschitz
manifolds-> Auschwitz manifolds in the same line and leave the
printed volume with such an horror in circulation and not replace
it? Is this acceptable?
September 10, 2007 10:04 PM
Peter Teichner said...
Dear A.
the episode you are describing resulted from an anonymous making some terrible changes in the references of a math paper. Springer is responsible for publishing that. You noticed those changes and hence it was also your responsibility to speak out right away. You could have gone through one of the German leaders in Mathematics, like Matthias Kreck, and that volume would not be in circulation any more.
Peter Teichner, UC Berkeley
September 12, 2007 3:35 PM
Peter Teichner said...
My vote is to not take into consideration anonymous comments in this discussion on the future of K-theory publications.
What's at stake is not only a satisfying outcome in the field of K-theory (with a single journal that everybody accepts as being of outstanding quality and reasonable price) but also the future of other mathematical publications. Springer is a huge asset at this time, even though we need to continue fighting their high pricing for journals.
The way the transition of "K-theory" away from Springer seems to have happened is a very bad example of how we mathematicians could destroy the support of a few willing publishers. Having Rob Kirby in my department, I know how much it takes to run math journals on your own and that by itself will not cover the future of publishing. We will also need the help of a certain number of professional companies.
September 12, 2007 3:51 PM
AC said...
Dear Peter
First I (ac) heard about this episode and checked its accuracy only now. If I had known earlier I would of course have done something.
What needs to be done for sure is to remove from all librairies the copy of the Journal with that terrible "data corruption". As you say it is the responsibility of Springer to do that. They have been able to make the author sign an "excuse" as if any sensible person could believe that it was the intention of the author to have his paper appearing in that corrupted form!!! Only Springer has the means to recall the volume and to replace it, and I am writing to them to ask that they do it. I dont see what Kreck has to do with that, except if you consider that he represents Springer. The present crisis has its origin in innumerable printing problems since 2003-2004 (less serious than the above one fortunately), but just to quote examples nilpotent -> impotent everywhere in a paper, 4 pages missing in the middle of a paper, the author of a ten pages paper spending more than a year of back and forth proofs with the publisher before getting a sensible version etc etc...
This resulted in permanent complaints of authors to Bak and no solution was found except to move to another publisher. The only sensible thing to do at this point is to move ahead, get the new JKT on the rails making sure that it will be ran in a democratic manner and stop all this sterile quarelling.
September 12, 2007 4:31 PM
AC said...
Good news!
I just got a positive answer from Catriona Byrne from Springer concerning the corrupted issue of K-theory which was discussed in this blog. I had sent an email asking if the corrupted volume could be destroyed and fortunately the answer is "yes":
"We agree. This is actually in the works right now. The corrected issue will have a covering note asking librarians to destroy the original issue, and pointing out that the online version is correct."
September 13, 2007 7:10 PM ) |
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