Pith Number

pith:BUK2MTXL

pith:2012:BUK2MTXLYTGCF7MVEUEDUFO3AB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A note on generators of number fields

Jeffrey D. Vaaler, Martin Widmer

arxiv:1203.4976 v1 · 2012-03-22 · math.NT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BUK2MTXLYTGCF7MVEUEDUFO3AB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:59:28.237874Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d15a64eebc4cc22fd9525083a15db0068141e40e4017c60e44343983c5b962a

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4976 · arxiv_version: 1203.4976v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4976 · pith_short_12: BUK2MTXLYTGC · pith_short_16: BUK2MTXLYTGCF7MV · pith_short_8: BUK2MTXL

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/BUK2MTXLYTGCF7MVEUEDUFO3AB \
  | 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: 0d15a64eebc4cc22fd9525083a15db0068141e40e4017c60e44343983c5b962a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9fc37ecf8048271bbb7f4c8cc7652ccf016cb267c311ffc289014a67f41d0d65",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-22T12:58:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5017f96d15cd2d8e9af480290e9a63cd9bc7b0eda76b657d9b2831fb53480d83"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}