Pith Number

pith:476HKXAP

pith:2016:476HKXAPELJTTG3MATM6EDCF2F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

D-finite Numbers

Hui Huang, Manuel Kauers

arxiv:1611.05901 v3 · 2016-11-17 · math.NT · cs.SC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{476HKXAPELJTTG3MATM6EDCF2F}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:57.294431Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7fc755c0f22d3399b6c04d9e20c45d172c39daa4a7acc8bae5e23e68cdde4e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05901 · arxiv_version: 1611.05901v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05901 · pith_short_12: 476HKXAPELJT · pith_short_16: 476HKXAPELJTTG3M · pith_short_8: 476HKXAP

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/476HKXAPELJTTG3MATM6EDCF2F \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e7fc755c0f22d3399b6c04d9e20c45d172c39daa4a7acc8bae5e23e68cdde4e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5cc4a3f0d1586a3db5d0802ee6c4ecbb6aa7c49cc99ff5870002dffa32973ef8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T21:20:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c69c974dd3a042b74ae7340ef9b80a7bedabea2b59bdb1874995f10d30c49fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}