Pith Number

pith:C6NXLVRY

pith:2025:C6NXLVRYPUVR72RKZ72IQECZYW

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The Structure of Extremal Bad Science Matrices

Shridhar Sinha

arxiv:2509.10580 v1 · 2025-09-11 · math.FA · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C6NXLVRYPUVR72RKZ72IQECZYW}

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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	2026-07-05T12:11:23.743682Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

179b75d6387d2b1fea2acff4881059c5a2ebef7b21dea1c554dead7d470d0660

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.10580 · arxiv_version: 2509.10580v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.10580 · pith_short_12: C6NXLVRYPUVR · pith_short_16: C6NXLVRYPUVR72RK · pith_short_8: C6NXLVRY

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/C6NXLVRYPUVR72RKZ72IQECZYW \
  | 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: 179b75d6387d2b1fea2acff4881059c5a2ebef7b21dea1c554dead7d470d0660

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6271a8768e2b8c94ddc963ea660e30b2703ed61c563b2f313a1d0921c01cf2c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.FA",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-11T20:47:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "270fefc617463b8b3d48b532a5e81b1c4d11231d532f53438e05e998bd25020f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.10580",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}