Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gyrovector space

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The result was keep. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:56, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gyrovector space

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Claimed as WP:OR in the lead. Mainly sourced by article authored or published by Ungar. Lack of secondary sources establishing notability. It appears from the long discussions in the talk page that this theory does not belong to the mainstream of mathematics and theoretical physics D.Lazard (talk) 13:12, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 14:38, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Mathematics-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 14:38, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, multiple in-depth sources. If POV/inaccuracy has been introduced into this article it needs filtering out, but that's not a cause for deletion.
- "Gyrogroups in proejctive hyperbolic Clifford analysis" is a 20-page article which says that the concept of gyrogroups (which redirects here) was conceived in 1988, so it's been around a long time. As far as I can tell, Ferreira (the author) is independent of Ungar. The affiliation of Ferreira is the University of Aveiro, Portugal, whereas Ungar's is North Dakota State University [1]. Ferraira devotes several pages to gyrovectors and Ungar, and there does not seem to be any criticism of Ungar's work in there.
- "On the notion of gyrogroup" is a paper by Russian authors, clearly not associated with Ungar. Again there is apparently no criticism of the results of Ungar. On the contrary, they show that gyrogroups are a specific type of Bol loop, a fact reported in our own article.
- "The cogyrolines of Möbius gyrovector spaces are metric but not periodic". Author is affiliated to Afyon Kocatepe University.
- Further papers on gyrogroups/gyrovectors not authored by Ungar include [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] which show worldwide mathematical interest in the subject.

Ungar and his associates have published massively on the subject and all independent sources seem to recognise his primacy in this field. It thus seems reasonable to me that Ungar is given a high profile in the article. SpinningSpark 15:33, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Spinningspark. James500 (talk) 04:06, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment this is well past the point of being verifiable by Wikipedia editors. A lot of it must be deleted. Per Spinningspark, something to justify an article can likely be salvaged. power~enwiki (π, ν) 03:16, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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