Pith Number

pith:PRHW3DUS

pith:2004:PRHW3DUSK6MFJTFIXTGN2XPSHA

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Rational Interpolation and Basic Hypergeometric Series

Alain Lascoux, Amy M. Fu

arxiv:math/0404063 v1 · 2004-04-04 · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PRHW3DUSK6MFJTFIXTGN2XPSHA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:26.462592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c4f6d8e92579854cca8bcccdd5df2382089e6ebb4dbe4c4925bad7271267bba

Aliases

arxiv: math/0404063 · arxiv_version: math/0404063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0404063 · pith_short_12: PRHW3DUSK6MF · pith_short_16: PRHW3DUSK6MFJTFI · pith_short_8: PRHW3DUS

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/PRHW3DUSK6MFJTFIXTGN2XPSHA \
  | 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: 7c4f6d8e92579854cca8bcccdd5df2382089e6ebb4dbe4c4925bad7271267bba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23308ce09b359ef2ff2f22622d07d78ad6c3b706bf22dc638090ff5f1e381037",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2004-04-04T05:10:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6f7e39e739adcdfdd1a499b468405cfa3ce9954dca6773d1db1369ee7f8eb05b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0404063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}