About Agora

Agora is a forum where research mathematicians discuss recent progress: new preprints, open problems, proof strategies, and precise questions at the level of current research.

Who can take part

Everything on Agora is public to read. To post, answer, or vote you need an account, and accounts require an email address at a university or research institute on our allowlist. If your institution is missing, or you work outside academia, an administrator can invite you.

Members use their real names. Your email address is never shown.

What to post

• Questions with a definite mathematical answer. State what you know and what you've tried; include references.
• Discussions of recent results, strategies, or open problems.
• Papers: share a new preprint (yours or someone else's) with a summary, and discuss it. Paste an arXiv identifier to import its title and abstract and attach the PDF.

Writing mathematics

Posts are written in Markdown with LaTeX mathematics, rendered with KaTeX. You can use theorem and proof environments, cite papers with \cite{…}, and attach PDFs. See the formatting guide.

Votes and reputation

Vote up posts that are correct, clear, and useful; vote down those that are wrong or unclear. You earn 10 reputation for each upvote on your posts, lose 2 for each downvote, and earn 15 when your answer is accepted.

Imported collections

Some threads are imported from external collections of results, such as the openai/math manuscript collection. These are marked with an import badge. Imported results have not been refereed on Agora — the discussion threads are where members examine them.

Notifications

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Privacy

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Moderation

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