Pith Number

pith:SK5W6TI3

pith:2019:SK5W6TI36I5SSJRZ2FBV4WJNED

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A new perspective on the distance problem over prime fields

Alex Iosevich, Doowon Koh, Thang Pham

arxiv:1905.04179 v1 · 2019-05-10 · math.CO · math.CA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SK5W6TI36I5SSJRZ2FBV4WJNED}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:32.290509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

92bb6f4d1bf23b292639d1435e592d20d5116afa09d655effa850a6f9b0b8ca3

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.04179 · arxiv_version: 1905.04179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.04179 · pith_short_12: SK5W6TI36I5S · pith_short_16: SK5W6TI36I5SSJRZ · pith_short_8: SK5W6TI3

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/SK5W6TI36I5SSJRZ2FBV4WJNED \
  | 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: 92bb6f4d1bf23b292639d1435e592d20d5116afa09d655effa850a6f9b0b8ca3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "267fe421acd6ee4b883378ee174c410a7dccb4de688c9b8c102047607aca07b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-10T14:06:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35eb5945d4585d353470b8a29997fa02753e514a81be7cb4d8213de91baef1c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.04179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}