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Why Are There No Triple Affine Hecke Algebras?

Why did the paper "Generators of matrix algebras in dimension 2 and 3" take 11 years to be published after being submitted?

  • Aslaksen, Helmer, and Arne B. Sletsjøe. "Generators of matrix algebras in dimension 2 and 3." Linear Algebra and its Applications 430.1 (2009): 1-6. (follow-up of )

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    My father is a colleague of the authors, so I got in touch with Helmer Aslaksen through him. He pointed me to an open facebook post where he had commented the article: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3101743535864&set=a.3090758621248.2147016.1032472381&type=1&relevant_count=1 Here is his comment in full: It's a long (no pun intended) story. The editor and the referees did a great job, and the paper went through two complete rewrites based on substantial suggestions from two referees. To be honest, I don't remember all the details about the delays, so what I'm writing now is just based on what I remember without checking old e-mail records. At one stage I was slow in submitting a revision. There were times when I believe the problem was that the editor had trouble getting responses from the referee. And at one stage I was not getting e-mail replies from the editor. I can't remember the details, but I suppose there was some problem with spam filtering or mail forwarding or something like that. When I contacted the editor through a third party, it got sorted out immediately. So to sum up, I take a lot of the blame myself. I could have chased more and been more prompt myself. I have no complaints against the journal, editor or referees. They did a thorough job and were helpful, so I'm happy to forgive them for the delays. It's not a ground breaking paper, but I think it's a cute little result in linear algebra that I think students could read, too. Maybe this will generate more interest in the content and lead to improvements. Maybe it will become my most cited paper?

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This hasn't become my most cited paper, but is my most popular paper on social media! :-) For those who didn't see my reply to Torkil that was included in his original post, I will quote it again. It's  a long (no pun intended) story. The editor and the referees did a great  job, and the paper went through two complete rewrites based on  substantial suggestions from two referees. To be honest, I don't  remember all the details about the delays, so what I'm writing now is  just based on what I remember without checking old e-mail records.    At  one stage I was slow in submitting a revision. There were times when I  believe the problem was that the editor had trouble getting responses  from the referee. And at one stage I was not getting e-mail replies from  the editor. I can't remember the details, but I suppose there was some  problem with spam filtering or mail forwarding or something like that.  When I contacted the editor through a third party, it got sorted out  immediately.    So to sum up, I take a lot of the blame myself. I  could have chased more and been more prompt myself. I have no complaints  against the journal, editor or referees. They did a thorough job and  were helpful, so I'm happy to forgive them for the delays.    It's  not a ground breaking paper, but I think it's a cute little result in  linear algebra that I think students could read, too. Maybe this will  generate more interest in the content and lead to improvements. Maybe it  will become my most cited paper?

Helmer Aslaksen

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