Pith Number

pith:MVRU3LZ4

pith:2025:MVRU3LZ43M7PXCRNG342ZASVPB

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The Forbidden Quiver of a Link

Sam Nelson, Stella Shah

arxiv:2504.18984 v3 · 2025-04-26 · math.GT · math.QA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVRU3LZ43M7PXCRNG342ZASVPB}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-22T01:03:14.590400Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65634daf3cdb3efb8a2d36f9ac8255784a892c3a708af90dc50b1ce54c45c385

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.18984 · arxiv_version: 2504.18984v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.18984 · pith_short_12: MVRU3LZ43M7P · pith_short_16: MVRU3LZ43M7PXCRN · pith_short_8: MVRU3LZ4

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/MVRU3LZ43M7PXCRNG342ZASVPB \
  | 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: 65634daf3cdb3efb8a2d36f9ac8255784a892c3a708af90dc50b1ce54c45c385

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c4d4dbe84c28a2d3115697cb43c964c6627eb6fe0cdcc8374483e60c7d4e5941",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-26T18:05:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a25c18dcb95562107c7e90f54c9d52a1d546fc8c0918bb4862598bb66350fea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.18984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}