Pith Number

pith:SFNMCQOJ

pith:2017:SFNMCQOJ6A3HGF55RX73IXS2MO

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On Hilbert's 8th Problem

Nicholas G. Polson

arxiv:1708.02653 v22 · 2017-08-07 · math.GM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SFNMCQOJ6A3HGF55RX73IXS2MO}

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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	2026-06-02T03:04:29.524830Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

915ac141c9f0367317bd8dffb45e5a63a03160f43805176415495511df2e7b91

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.02653 · arxiv_version: 1708.02653v22 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.02653 · pith_short_12: SFNMCQOJ6A3H · pith_short_16: SFNMCQOJ6A3HGF55 · pith_short_8: SFNMCQOJ

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/SFNMCQOJ6A3HGF55RX73IXS2MO \
  | 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: 915ac141c9f0367317bd8dffb45e5a63a03160f43805176415495511df2e7b91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9474ba7237701445deb06e6732cce125cea1d312665e3817a1e8f60242f7cee7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-07T12:53:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "994a470dac3d3bb5f9e1d9bbc781cc4ec6d463f6d977f63c21bad67ad5b594c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.02653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 22
  }
}