Pith Number

pith:VBDWGSOB

pith:2017:VBDWGSOBUUVCAFAWAWCEN3JW62

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the algebraic Gordian distance

Jie Chen

arxiv:1709.05626 v3 · 2017-09-17 · math.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBDWGSOBUUVCAFAWAWCEN3JW62}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:55.213224Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8476349c1a52a201416058446ed36f6b4a7e156675fd3f8162965a8c8df12c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05626 · arxiv_version: 1709.05626v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05626 · pith_short_12: VBDWGSOBUUVC · pith_short_16: VBDWGSOBUUVCAFAW · pith_short_8: VBDWGSOB

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/VBDWGSOBUUVCAFAWAWCEN3JW62 \
  | 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: a8476349c1a52a201416058446ed36f6b4a7e156675fd3f8162965a8c8df12c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddfdf406dee81bffbd0440e55c5ba2e9fa3fae47e1244a7b7c0cd9530c55eb81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-17T08:33:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fecaedbadff9ff9bef49cd7926ede2f98c0fa56266980bb22dff657410b1d8cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}