Pith Number

pith:VCMLPZJC

pith:2017:VCMLPZJCL5RUYDV2YLTUDQAI63

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A stronger version of a question proposed by K. Mahler

Carlos Gustavo Moreira, Diego Marques

arxiv:1708.09271 v3 · 2017-08-30 · math.NT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCMLPZJCL5RUYDV2YLTUDQAI63}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:31:02.460304Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a898b7e5225f634c0ebac2e741c008f6f6fcc728d290147f320f8b8c6b58af91

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09271 · arxiv_version: 1708.09271v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09271 · pith_short_12: VCMLPZJCL5RU · pith_short_16: VCMLPZJCL5RUYDV2 · pith_short_8: VCMLPZJC

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/VCMLPZJCL5RUYDV2YLTUDQAI63 \
  | 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: a898b7e5225f634c0ebac2e741c008f6f6fcc728d290147f320f8b8c6b58af91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "575687591916ed9f17776dc8c48fcbf32e0cae18f86acedebefea98f2bd19ef6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-30T13:46:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b430d2b79c880a2e465c51e72a58f6c0d3699f7cce325c1d86b8f5a01fff4a4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}