Pith Number

pith:5GAIXH56

pith:2025:5GAIXH56MQCEW36EFK37GWLEML

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In between myth and reality: AI for math -- a case study in category theory

R\u{a}zvan Diaconescu

arxiv:2504.13360 v1 · 2025-04-17 · cs.AI · math.HO · math.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5GAIXH56MQCEW36EFK37GWLEML}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-05T10:50:53.632842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9808b9fbe64044b6fc42ab7f3596462c05ed28657d00eac1a02c17d376518f9

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.13360 · arxiv_version: 2504.13360v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.13360 · pith_short_12: 5GAIXH56MQCE · pith_short_16: 5GAIXH56MQCEW36E · pith_short_8: 5GAIXH56

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5GAIXH56MQCEW36EFK37GWLEML \
  | 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: e9808b9fbe64044b6fc42ab7f3596462c05ed28657d00eac1a02c17d376518f9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a164a53eb7d4510839c8e9116265d205c593bc412793cba206a90d871a900fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.HO",
      "math.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-17T21:58:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b83431f44f15dc999545ba84c5ba6a4d8bf4530dc12e8fbca04b09f0519f29f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.13360",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}