Pith Number

pith:Q22QDAAP

pith:2017:Q22QDAAPV2RVAAQKDKOCIJXC73

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On a conjecture of George Beck

Shane Chern

arxiv:1705.10700 v2 · 2017-05-30 · math.NT · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q22QDAAPV2RVAAQKDKOCIJXC73}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:30.733526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86b501800faea350020a1a9c2426e2feea945cf2098eda17b960871d19ddd985

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10700 · arxiv_version: 1705.10700v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10700 · pith_short_12: Q22QDAAPV2RV · pith_short_16: Q22QDAAPV2RVAAQK · pith_short_8: Q22QDAAP

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/Q22QDAAPV2RVAAQKDKOCIJXC73 \
  | 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: 86b501800faea350020a1a9c2426e2feea945cf2098eda17b960871d19ddd985

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b62015508245a1ec06f0147c518e7b16f0bd265e21e88ebfe108f7702b53fe0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-30T15:23:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d86dda860b3cc932e1bdb5703390e5d7911c6ef843fc653075e5cc5c8ef3e3ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}