Pith Number

pith:MP5DER32

pith:2017:MP5DER32ME3DMX7ALCSW3SNMSJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Steinberg-like characters for finite simple groups

Alexandre Zalesski, Gunter Malle

arxiv:1712.08401 v2 · 2017-12-22 · math.RT · math.GR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MP5DER32ME3DMX7ALCSW3SNMSJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:25:50.803209Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63fa32477a6136365fe058a56dc9ac9257131c5f871db73fe17c6c2fb983909b

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08401 · arxiv_version: 1712.08401v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08401 · pith_short_12: MP5DER32ME3D · pith_short_16: MP5DER32ME3DMX7A · pith_short_8: MP5DER32

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MP5DER32ME3DMX7ALCSW3SNMSJ \
  | 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: 63fa32477a6136365fe058a56dc9ac9257131c5f871db73fe17c6c2fb983909b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a23633eaedfc5b405e51fa4b81489211af13fded5363dc88f4f43a60c0262424",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.GR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.RT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-22T11:39:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdc8172e4854c6b559da819ce75f3e89a6a7a405a0ebae9e110e7e12ff88685d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08401",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}