TITLE: Looking for a paper on transfinite diameter by David Cantor
QUESTION [14 upvotes]: I have been reading about transfinite diameter and its applications to number theory and have been hunting for the following paper for quite a while:
Cantor D.: On an extension of the definition of transfinite diameter and some
applications, J. reine Angew. Math., vol. 316 (1980), pp. 160-207.
Unfortunately, I am an undergraduate and have no access to MathSciNet or other resources which provide papers for free. The only links I got results from are ones accepting a payment which is completely outside my financial capacity. From some advice I got in a previous similar reference-request post, I tried an interlibrary loan but due to the pandemic and no nearby libraries, that hasn't been successful so far. I would really appreciate a link to the full text of the above reference. Thank you.

REPLY [19 votes]: Hopefully this works:
Cantor D.: On an extension of the definition of transfinite diameter and some applications

Since you said that you had "been hunting for the following paper for quite a while," here are the specific steps that I took to find this paper. Probably this will make it seem simple in retrospect, but I don't want to give off the impression that this required a complex knowledge of databases.

I googled the title of the paper

I clicked the link to EUDML (with which I wasn't previously familiar)

The sidebar says In Other Databases and I didn't find ZBMath helpful, so I used GDZ

I've never heard of GDZ before, but I saw the paper listed on p. 160 of that document and, indeed, the paper was there


For future reference, there is also an often used website called sci-hub [dot] tw that can pull papers for which you have the DOI. You can read more about Sci-Hub on wikipedia and decide whether that is a route that you are willing to take when searching out future materials.