Pith Number

pith:AR5UZDQZ

pith:2026:AR5UZDQZDIDRYFQB2JUAEPPD7M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Knot contact homology as a planar limit of Chern-Simons theory

Ben Webster, Meri Zaimi

arxiv:2602.12404 v2 · 2026-02-12 · math.GT · math.QA · math.RT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AR5UZDQZDIDRYFQB2JUAEPPD7M}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-29T00:24:36.549126Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

047b4c8e191a071c1601d268023de3fb0807f54002cf969cb28588a1b1c69823

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.12404 · arxiv_version: 2602.12404v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.12404 · pith_short_12: AR5UZDQZDIDR · pith_short_16: AR5UZDQZDIDRYFQB · pith_short_8: AR5UZDQZ

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/AR5UZDQZDIDRYFQB2JUAEPPD7M \
  | 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: 047b4c8e191a071c1601d268023de3fb0807f54002cf969cb28588a1b1c69823

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb45f027751ba742ea3196905eac7e4f6c4a55e12324cf55418835299698ea5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA",
      "math.RT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-12T20:55:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e739f754606c6233328a7fd68477615814974f951088352c74bb1011f2082b8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.12404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}