I need help with a basic thing, the title doesn't appear in my paper
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}%{scrartcl}{extarticle}
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%\usepackage{mathtools}
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\DeclareMathOperator{\Ker}{Ker}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Ima}{Im}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Ric}{Ric}
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\begin{document}
\theoremstyle{plain}% default
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section]
\newtheorem{lemma}[thm]{Lemma}
\newtheorem{prop}[thm]{Proposition}
\newtheorem{cor}[thm]{Corollary}
\newtheorem{RK}[thm]{Rellich-Kondrachov's Lemma}
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\title{The Hodge Theorem}
\date{October 31, 475}
\author{Raul}
\begin{document}and\maketitle; finish with\end{document}. If you don't tell LaTeX to print the title information it won't do it by itself. – egreg Sep 21 '12 at 21:48\begin{document}in the wrong place. Remove it from where it is and place it just before\title{The Hodge Theorem}. Then add\maketitleafter\author{Raul}. As an aside, are you sure that typing\beand\eeis better than\begin{equation}and\end{equation}? My feeling is that it isn't. Also the definition of\Rand the similar commands is wrong:\newcommand{\R}{\mathbb{R}}is the correct one. Remove the\fontline. – egreg Sep 21 '12 at 22:10