Pith Number

pith:IRZV2D5S

pith:1996:IRZV2D5SQYKFT5KV6CKCEUQMDH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proof of the Refined Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture

Doron Zeilberger (Temple University)

arxiv:math/9606224 v1 · 1996-06-03 · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IRZV2D5SQYKFT5KV6CKCEUQMDH}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:08:59.213584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44735d0fb2861459f555f09422520c19e5cd302d099264091029bdddc8524f76

Aliases

arxiv: math/9606224 · arxiv_version: math/9606224v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9606224 · pith_short_12: IRZV2D5SQYKF · pith_short_16: IRZV2D5SQYKFT5KV · pith_short_8: IRZV2D5S

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/IRZV2D5SQYKFT5KV6CKCEUQMDH \
  | 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: 44735d0fb2861459f555f09422520c19e5cd302d099264091029bdddc8524f76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c387ccab7971df454f8b98b90ab8b11dd4c8c0338b2c189d3b19edd4a98c09dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-03T19:29:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0494226c1a335aba374de645dfe2b8aa13c760fb28540494bc6038f26ee8fe79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9606224",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}