Pith Number

pith:MDU5NAG6

pith:2012:MDU5NAG6WWT74CFBYGJO56E7VX

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Jack Morava

arxiv:1205.5208 v1 · 2012-05-23 · math-ph · math.MP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDU5NAG6WWT74CFBYGJO56E7VX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:02.000028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60e9d680deb5a7fe08a1c192eef89fadeb0cccce7912fbf28152233765c8daca

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5208 · arxiv_version: 1205.5208v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5208 · pith_short_12: MDU5NAG6WWT7 · pith_short_16: MDU5NAG6WWT74CFB · pith_short_8: MDU5NAG6

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/MDU5NAG6WWT74CFBYGJO56E7VX \
  | 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: 60e9d680deb5a7fe08a1c192eef89fadeb0cccce7912fbf28152233765c8daca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8d51c1ce8ea55d2a2f24ef2006f9519b77152e085ebd35b143766cfce63a04d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-23T15:35:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93b13270df177be2941f6e9f4730cb1d70f8aefa612dc4b65e695ff85ef6ea2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5208",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}