Pith Number

pith:I7QTQ3U7

pith:2018:I7QTQ3U7CH2BRC3QKTI5UG3LD2

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$q$-Difference Equations and Identities of the Rogers--Ramanujan--Bailey Type

Andrew V. Sills

arxiv:1812.04467 v1 · 2018-12-11 · math.CA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I7QTQ3U7CH2BRC3QKTI5UG3LD2}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:31.984587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47e1386e9f11f4188b7054d1da1b6b1eb7e68762fc9108da89eefdc95ba37f4b

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04467 · arxiv_version: 1812.04467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04467 · pith_short_12: I7QTQ3U7CH2B · pith_short_16: I7QTQ3U7CH2BRC3Q · pith_short_8: I7QTQ3U7

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/I7QTQ3U7CH2BRC3QKTI5UG3LD2 \
  | 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: 47e1386e9f11f4188b7054d1da1b6b1eb7e68762fc9108da89eefdc95ba37f4b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "71e4933d1bce75cdcbc6fd30e0e0e8cd37f575682ff48d035e9548301b45fbb6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-11T15:30:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5072fcde3f6dea1df69bc5a4fe6c9ce35b9eaaf71a08e790085a8723cc6c4a0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}