Pith Number

pith:VLFBBQ2W

pith:2026:VLFBBQ2WJ762NONVS5FPMFKS2I

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Higher Degree $t$-Hermitian Forms and Positivity-Preserving Contractions

Isaac Dobes

arxiv:2602.21048 v2 · 2026-02-24 · math.SP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLFBBQ2WJ762NONVS5FPMFKS2I}

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✓ 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	2026-07-31T01:33:17.272720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaca10c3564ffda6b9b5974af61552d23a26f95fc0a78b7c611799a4821f0dbc

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.21048 · arxiv_version: 2602.21048v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.21048 · pith_short_12: VLFBBQ2WJ762 · pith_short_16: VLFBBQ2WJ762NONV · pith_short_8: VLFBBQ2W

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/VLFBBQ2WJ762NONVS5FPMFKS2I \
  | 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: aaca10c3564ffda6b9b5974af61552d23a26f95fc0a78b7c611799a4821f0dbc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48056eece0b928c2de4cf82e1638601315cee8b5ee40759d11909272c8fd63c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.SP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-24T16:05:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b26187ad9438a62b81560950bb48b77b2e11612dd467f83a6d10f277773d393"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.21048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}