Communications in Algebra

Communications in Algebra presents high quality papers of original research in the field of algebra.

Editor-in-Chief: Scott Chapman

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Article downloads from 2024 to 2025 were up 47%. Congratulations to the great work by the Communications in Algebra Editorial Board!

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(3/3) We would like to thank Lars Christensen, Mark Lewis, Cristian Vay, and Sarah Witherspoon for their invaluable and insightful service on the selection committee.

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(2/3) 2. Emiliano Acri and Marco Bonatto for the paper "Skew braces of size pq" (Comm. Algebra 48 (2020), no. 5, 1872–1881.)

These papers have demonstrated striking influence for being so (relatively) new.

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(1/3) We are pleased to announce the winners of the Second Annual Earl Taft Award:

1. Scott Chapman, Felix Gotti, and Marly Gotti for the paper "Factorization invariants of Puiseux monoids generated by geometric sequences" (Comm. Algebra 48 (2020), no. 1, 380–396.)

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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Daniel Smertnig of the University of Ljubljana has joined our Editorial Board. Professor Smertnig brings his expertise in noncommutative ring theory, non-unique factorization theory, and beyond. Prof. Smertnig, welcome to our board!

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The mathematician Michael Atiyah was born on this day in 1929. He made significant contributions to topology and geometry, and was best known for his work on K-theory and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem. In 1966, he was awarded the Fields Medal.

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We are delighted to announce that Prof. Julian Külshammer from the Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, is joining our board. A leading expert in representation theory, Prof. Külshammer brings valuable expertise to our team. Welcome, Prof. Külshammer, to our Editorial Board!

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It is our immense pleasure to announce that Prof. Emily Witt from University of Kansas is joining our board. She is an expert in commutative algebra.

Welcome to our Editorial Board, Prof. Witt!

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With great pleasure we announce that Prof. Cristian Vay from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) is joining our board. He brings his expertise in both Hopf and Nichols algebras. Prof. Vay, welcome to our Editorial Board!

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It is a great pleasure to announce that Prof. Tony Puthenpurakal from IIT Bombay (India) is joining our board. He is an expert in commutative algebra. Prof. Puthenpurakal, welcome to our Editorial Board!

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First Earl Taft Award winner:

Haruhisa Enomoto, Bruhat inversions in Weyl groups and torsion-free classes over preprojective algebras, 49 (2021).

Congratulations to the author!!!

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First Earl Taft Award winner:

Susan Cooper, Giuliana Fatabbi, Elena Guardo, Anna Lorenzini, Juan Migliore, Uwe Nagel, Alexandra Seceleanu, Justyna Szpond, and Adam Van Tuyl, Symbolic powers of codimension two Cohen-Macaulay ideals, 48 (2020).

Congratulations to the authors!!!

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In memory of our journal’s founder, the Earl Taft Memorial Award will be conferred annually starting in 2024. The award will honor 2 outstanding papers published by Communications in Algebra during the 5-year period prior to the award year. For more, see

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On September 20 of 1717, Colin Maclaurin was appointed to the Mathematics Chair at Marischal College, Aberdeen at the age of 19. This is the youngest at which anyone has been appointed a full professor at a university.

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On this day of 1793, George Green was born. He was a mathematician best-known for Green's function and Green's theorems in potential theory.

Check out the following Communications in Algebra paper related to Green functors!

https://t.co/Q2sHkIh9Mw

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On Saturday, May 4 at 2PM, our board member Julia Plavnik will give an AMS Invited Address entitled “Quantum Symmetries” at the Spring Western Sectional Meeting at @SFSU.

Learn more:
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On this day (but in 1707), Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland. Euler is the most prolific mathematician of all time. To honor him, we highlight the following Communication in Algebra paper related to the Euler's local characteristic:

https://t.co/34KvJMeEcZ

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On this day of 1642, Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire, England (according to the pre-1752 English calendar). Check the following paper about Newton polygons.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2024!

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On this day but in 1640, Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey. Check the following Comms. Algebra paper on a generalization of Fermat's little theorem:

https://t.co/O5tPFxMH9C

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On this day of 1648, Blaise Pascal performed experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum. Take a look at the following paper, which introduces a generalization of his famous arithmetical triangle:

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