Pith Number record
pith:RE7YA4NU
pith:2016:RE7YA4NUEPAVNSZTI7K5XFZRCI
Protocol
content-addressed
Pith receipt
schema 1.0
- Author
- not author-attested
- Timestamp
- not externally anchored
- Storage
- storage not verified
- References
- references not resolved
On an analogue of the Markov equation for exceptional collections of length 4
Record completeness checklist
1
Anchor canonical hash to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps
open
Stamps the canonical SHA-256 (
893f8071b423c156cb3347d5...) across
three calendars. Confirms instantly. Calendars upgrade to a Bitcoin-block proof in a few hours.
2
Mirror to Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
open
Submits the paper URL to the Internet Archive and records the resulting Wayback capture
URL plus timestamp. Pith does not host the paper.
4
Sign a citation pointing at this record
open
Records a signed citation. Pick a relationship (supports, refutes, extends, uses_method,
depends_on, replaces, compares, cites). Pith signs the assertion server-side.
5
Submit replication, falsification, or formal bridge
open
Public record of a replication attempt, formal bridge (Lean / Coq), or falsification.
Held for moderation. Not peer review; a typed annotation.
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Inbound citations
Receipt
| First computed | 2026-05-18T01:11:03.771813Z |
|---|---|
| Builder | pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1 |
| Signature |
Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05, fingerprint 8d4b5ee74e4693bc…) · public key
|
| Signature value | xm1Yl+kmFjpPpVhS3zUr8RsAZFJ7jBhtoq4gCOjghGR6mB2SUURMYB/3fC30kWvZ9CXQrMrQt6KKMBdsru2sAQ== |
| Schema | pith-number/v1.0 |
Canonical hash
893f8071b423c156cb3347d5db973112307400d13f5a8190d00db5f02bf5cef3
Aliases
| Kind | Value |
|---|---|
| arxiv | 1607.04246 |
| arxiv_version | 1607.04246v1 |
| doi | 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04246 |
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
Three shell lines recompute the canonical hash. If the hash you compute matches the one shown above, the record is intact end-to-end.
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RE7YA4NUEPAVNSZTI7K5XFZRCI \
| 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: 893f8071b423c156cb3347d5db973112307400d13f5a8190d00db5f02bf5cef3
Verify the Pith Ed25519 signature against the published public key:
curl -s https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json | jq -r .public_key_b64 \
| base64 -d > /tmp/pith_pub.bin
python3 -c "
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
import base64
pub = Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(open('/tmp/pith_pub.bin','rb').read())
sig = base64.b64decode('xm1Yl+kmFjpPpVhS3zUr8RsAZFJ7jBhtoq4gCOjghGR6mB2SUURMYB/3fC30kWvZ9CXQrMrQt6KKMBdsru2sAQ==')
digest = bytes.fromhex('893f8071b423c156cb3347d5db973112307400d13f5a8190d00db5f02bf5cef3')
pub.verify(sig, digest)
print('signature OK')"
Show canonical record JSON
{
"metadata": {
"abstract_canon_sha256": "555f061b664a9e875461992c0a221d23e110c17f9ccf29d4cb1332d1d03799a1",
"cross_cats_sorted": [],
"license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
"primary_cat": "math.AG",
"submitted_at": "2016-07-14T18:53:56Z",
"title_canon_sha256": "cdad06d19540addbd0604a3acf60f1bdc22862fa567826066a5e8acda13b31a8"
},
"schema_version": "1.0",
"source": {
"id": "1607.04246",
"kind": "arxiv",
"version": 1
}
}