Handling hystory of `Discrete field theory: symmetries and conservation laws' in Letters in Mathematical Physics

Summary. This work was rejected from Letters in Mathematical Physics because of 'not suitable level of rigour'. However, referees' reports and editorial comments contain no examples of mathematical errors/imprecisions. (Particular issues discussed in the valuable reports are reduced just to the identification of chains and cochains on a fixed cell decomposition, that is, identification of vectors and linear functions in space R^n with a fixed distinguished basis, which is absolutely correct mathematically.) A request for a single example of an error in the work was left without any answer. Later the work was published in another journal.

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Ethical comment. Ethics of publishing received peer reviews. Transparent anonymous peer review policy. As a courtesy to the editors, they have been asked for any possible objections to publishing the correspondence.

Neutrality comment. Compare this handling with the handling in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, where a previous version of this work was also rejected, but with a clear and convincing reasoning. [SciRev]