Literature Positioning (jet-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

• Writing the related-work paragraph(s) for a JET theory paper
• A referee or editor may ask "how is this different from [closest existing theorem]?"
• You need to defend originality at the desk screen

How JET wants the literature handled

JET spans general theory, so referees are expert in the nearest existing results, not a broad empirical literature. Positioning is theorem-relative, not topic-relative. For each closest paper, state the delta in one of these precise forms: