Pith Number

pith:IWP5UMLF

pith:2000:IWP5UMLFMXN7YYXIXP54Z65I6V

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On the Balazard-Saias criterion for the Riemann Hypothesis

Gerald Myerson (Macquarie University), J. Brian Conrey (AIM)

arxiv:math/0002254 v1 · 2000-02-09 · math.NT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWP5UMLFMXN7YYXIXP54Z65I6V}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:38.779867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

459fda316565dbfc62e8bbfbccfba8f55d756de74665051a1b09330e31137896

Aliases

arxiv: math/0002254 · arxiv_version: math/0002254v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0002254 · pith_short_12: IWP5UMLFMXN7 · pith_short_16: IWP5UMLFMXN7YYXI · pith_short_8: IWP5UMLF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWP5UMLFMXN7YYXIXP54Z65I6V \
  | 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: 459fda316565dbfc62e8bbfbccfba8f55d756de74665051a1b09330e31137896

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4a581abd679884350dee7342ca136edb508f0ea75eaa9af022c0420fa4543b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2000-02-09T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0bcc25219a1baf126706da4e1296a22beac87cfd6c8fcfac73dc1e64668908f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0002254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}