Pith Number

pith:KKXBBET6

pith:1997:KKXBBET6X2Z2MSAC7LZAZKKJRA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Another proof of the alternating sign matrix conjecture

Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis)

arxiv:math/9712207 v1 · 1997-11-29 · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KKXBBET6X2Z2MSAC7LZAZKKJRA}

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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	2026-07-04T14:40:23.610397Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52ae10927ebeb3a64802faf20ca949883fdbf0fe33bed8e425b897c0d7bf8ac0

Aliases

arxiv: math/9712207 · arxiv_version: math/9712207v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9712207 · pith_short_12: KKXBBET6X2Z2 · pith_short_16: KKXBBET6X2Z2MSAC · pith_short_8: KKXBBET6

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/KKXBBET6X2Z2MSAC7LZAZKKJRA \
  | 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: 52ae10927ebeb3a64802faf20ca949883fdbf0fe33bed8e425b897c0d7bf8ac0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "260715ad26af9be521871f29bcd49aba59af3c56815613f027d62187c1c4e2b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "1997-11-29T23:29:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e32da79d2dd4d5f837c26c35036968d6524d0c17d678317f3263f3dbc77d436"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9712207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}