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    Step 0. Make sure that the journal you want to submit to permits author uploads to arXiv.
    – Buffy
    Commented Nov 29, 2020 at 21:00
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    Indeed, feel free to add that to the question if you'd like, though I'd say in math that step shouldn't be necessary.
    – Anonymous
    Commented Nov 29, 2020 at 21:03
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    Step 0.b if it is not allowed: decide to not publish in such a [expletive removed] journal. We are scientists. Science should be open and accessible. Do not contribute to hiding scientific results behind paywalls! Especially in a time where there really is no reason to anymore. There are always open ways of publishing available. And arXiv can even be your main and only publisher. This goes doubly so if you have tenure, but really in most fields great results will stand out no matter where they are published and things are shifting more and more towards "open science" not hurting your career.
    – Kvothe
    Commented Nov 30, 2020 at 16:41
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    I have submitted papers to arXiv, subsequently submitted them to journals which forbid arXiv, added a note to the submission that they had already been published on arXiv and this could not be revoked, and it didn't seem that anybody cared. I suppose they could subsequently "unpublish" it from their journal but legally copyright has been granted to arXiv first, and the journal has no right or ability to override that. (IANAL)
    – Richard Rast
    Commented Nov 30, 2020 at 18:43