Pith Number

pith:QBWX57DK

pith:2012:QBWX57DKBEQOYAVL2JNKLLH4FX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From ribbon categories to generalized Yang-Baxter operators and link invariants (after Kitaev and Wang)

Seung-Moon Hong

arxiv:1205.4005 v1 · 2012-05-17 · math.GT · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QBWX57DKBEQOYAVL2JNKLLH4FX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:23.973400Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

806d7efc6a0920ec02abd25aa5acfc2df02e5f95c5db624a3c75469ac995790d

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4005 · arxiv_version: 1205.4005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4005 · pith_short_12: QBWX57DKBEQO · pith_short_16: QBWX57DKBEQOYAVL · pith_short_8: QBWX57DK

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/QBWX57DKBEQOYAVL2JNKLLH4FX \
  | 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: 806d7efc6a0920ec02abd25aa5acfc2df02e5f95c5db624a3c75469ac995790d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "689c8fb557fd6a6d1b4d5255a8c811431e54b503f5498e65b8316f4617712e04",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.QA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-17T18:49:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d639e3fa3fd17d21541c4e0f9ad75d07c91cfe7e3f9fcc799b64f64dd54395f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}