Pith Number

pith:M4ZI6X6T

pith:2018:M4ZI6X6TJHLWGDFX2K3666NRXG

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The Determinant of an Elliptic Sylvesteresque Matrix

Christian Krattenthaler, Gaurav Bhatnagar

arxiv:1802.09885 v2 · 2018-02-27 · math.CA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M4ZI6X6TJHLWGDFX2K3666NRXG}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:14:40.248389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67328f5fd349d7630cb7d2b7ef79b1b9bf882003e57b02c57f0b0fdc6ccf12fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.09885 · arxiv_version: 1802.09885v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.09885 · pith_short_12: M4ZI6X6TJHLW · pith_short_16: M4ZI6X6TJHLWGDFX · pith_short_8: M4ZI6X6T

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/M4ZI6X6TJHLWGDFX2K3666NRXG \
  | 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: 67328f5fd349d7630cb7d2b7ef79b1b9bf882003e57b02c57f0b0fdc6ccf12fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "faac7a10f00d10dd27995bde854f5f3d3c984c6ff4e9651f69895379305a3093",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-27T13:52:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af7675a610481fdf54444be88588b1bd04df39a42a0ec052b3a801bf7a04f296"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.09885",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}