Pith Number

pith:LVGXC5SZ

pith:2012:LVGXC5SZRUAYFACS4IYTNPWCQ5

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Think globally, compute locally

Bertrand Eynard, Vincent Bouchard

arxiv:1211.2302 v2 · 2012-11-10 · math-ph · hep-th · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LVGXC5SZRUAYFACS4IYTNPWCQ5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:44.694585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d4d7176598d01828052e23136bec2877fe8f1f98ec1d8fb2da53e3d056f81cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.2302 · arxiv_version: 1211.2302v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.2302 · pith_short_12: LVGXC5SZRUAY · pith_short_16: LVGXC5SZRUAYFACS · pith_short_8: LVGXC5SZ

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/LVGXC5SZRUAYFACS4IYTNPWCQ5 \
  | 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: 5d4d7176598d01828052e23136bec2877fe8f1f98ec1d8fb2da53e3d056f81cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "054d739308e17d8b249128d29e17aaec43870624afa29db0d13fbc16ac357bed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-th",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-10T07:25:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "551864bbee7e630875b56bab7a593b4ad030246cb06539785e9f7559715dd69f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.2302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}