Pith Number

pith:E5IM3PVL

pith:2023:E5IM3PVLPHH7KR57EWXFOAZXGJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Beauty of Roots

John C. Baez

arxiv:2310.00326 v1 · 2023-09-30 · math.HO · math.CO

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5IM3PVLPHH7KR57EWXFOAZXGJ}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Quantum topology without topology

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:44:38.519917Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2750cdbeab79cff547bf25ae57033732587a858f13af53cd7713a70a8c43028b

Aliases

arxiv: 2310.00326 · arxiv_version: 2310.00326v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2310.00326 · pith_short_12: E5IM3PVLPHH7 · pith_short_16: E5IM3PVLPHH7KR57 · pith_short_8: E5IM3PVL

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/E5IM3PVLPHH7KR57EWXFOAZXGJ \
  | 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: 2750cdbeab79cff547bf25ae57033732587a858f13af53cd7713a70a8c43028b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "546f76ee0e9ca43aa4022f9d7e010b02fc2c9b35eeba83b081744628b7577941",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-30T10:04:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a91202fe57cdc42ecbba92ce6f34dcd3befa25e9807b414e8c420c606a2a26c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2310.00326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}