Pith Number

pith:JB34LQF7

pith:2004:JB34LQF7U7J5TFKIXLXN5ZFWFN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the local constancy of characters

Jonathan Korman

arxiv:math/0408432 v2 · 2004-08-31 · math.RT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JB34LQF7U7J5TFKIXLXN5ZFWFN}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-04T14:39:01.829252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4877c5c0bfa7d3d99548baeedee4b62b49a0992a1a50b30e722843979922d4cb

Aliases

arxiv: math/0408432 · arxiv_version: math/0408432v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0408432 · pith_short_12: JB34LQF7U7J5 · pith_short_16: JB34LQF7U7J5TFKI · pith_short_8: JB34LQF7

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/JB34LQF7U7J5TFKIXLXN5ZFWFN \
  | 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: 4877c5c0bfa7d3d99548baeedee4b62b49a0992a1a50b30e722843979922d4cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6afd60399921a5433d3df4788d93c9f8d49d1c53a35c2be1a0f797b6d931f0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.RT",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-31T15:01:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0e2adbc7cfb382e65c8d4a2cc16e3f8777c89cef731d4ef55c9c8f3bda367d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0408432",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}