Pith Number

pith:AKU7ALYB

pith:2017:AKU7ALYBZYUC2YSS2YKR7AGGWH

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On the mathematics of beauty: beautiful images

A. M. Khalili

arxiv:1705.08244 v8 · 2017-05-13 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AKU7ALYBZYUC2YSS2YKR7AGGWH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T04:01:39.066194Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02a9f02f01ce282d6252d6151f80c6b1fcf586197b0865bbb1fc021753326308

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08244 · arxiv_version: 1705.08244v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08244 · pith_short_12: AKU7ALYBZYUC · pith_short_16: AKU7ALYBZYUC2YSS · pith_short_8: AKU7ALYB

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/AKU7ALYBZYUC2YSS2YKR7AGGWH \
  | 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: 02a9f02f01ce282d6252d6151f80c6b1fcf586197b0865bbb1fc021753326308

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb11961d71862ea2481009470fae23fce033933a0c2da170015fbb60e45a8f3e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-13T21:53:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "388e0b7ed41918d1ae55c729bbbb77fe746b1d6499b8c21ef36068d96e1bd1f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}