Pith Number

pith:KJBLC7OS

pith:2026:KJBLC7OSZT67LULLN5AXBIKQL4

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My Warm, Randomly Recorded, Recollections of Professor Richard Askey

Sergei K. Suslov

arxiv:2605.19085 v1 · 2026-05-18 · math.HO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KJBLC7OSZT67LULLN5AXBIKQL4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T01:05:26.579648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5242b17dd2ccfdf5d16b6f4170a1505f0a779835a07a68edcce6fefaab3e30c5

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19085 · arxiv_version: 2605.19085v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19085 · pith_short_12: KJBLC7OSZT67 · pith_short_16: KJBLC7OSZT67LULL · pith_short_8: KJBLC7OS

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/KJBLC7OSZT67LULLN5AXBIKQL4 \
  | 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: 5242b17dd2ccfdf5d16b6f4170a1505f0a779835a07a68edcce6fefaab3e30c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cb713d71fcb9713fdd0c9fd050b4e35c839618ab27e193347b9d32777a40c21",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T20:19:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b011b9a851aec636e72e3b7402e7997001e468cb8a30d521736cd51368297290"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19085",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}