Pith Number

pith:PBVNNAGR

pith:1995:PBVNNAGR3ROOAVIQDIF7Y3N4SO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Continuity properties of best analytic approximation

Nicholas J. Young, Vladimir V. Peller

arxiv:math/9511214 v1 · 1995-11-28 · math.FA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBVNNAGR3ROOAVIQDIF7Y3N4SO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:48.117062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

786ad680d1dc5ce055101a0bfc6dbc93b61ebc345d836adadbf768f3a3305299

Aliases

arxiv: math/9511214 · arxiv_version: math/9511214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9511214 · pith_short_12: PBVNNAGR3ROO · pith_short_16: PBVNNAGR3ROOAVIQ · pith_short_8: PBVNNAGR

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/PBVNNAGR3ROOAVIQDIF7Y3N4SO \
  | 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: 786ad680d1dc5ce055101a0bfc6dbc93b61ebc345d836adadbf768f3a3305299

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1800c691dea25ec434d8db42d70b6036138590d5a5598e854010dfd3a216668",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.FA",
    "submitted_at": "1995-11-28T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81bfe63a3a82aa6db8550330ab13d49ca722412395eda301e8beb6599d034efc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9511214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}