Pith Number

pith:XQZTTL4E

pith:2017:XQZTTL4EPHA2HME4MNBLCPHXRQ

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Models of Random Knots

Chaim Even-Zohar

arxiv:1711.10470 v1 · 2017-11-28 · math.GT · math.CO · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQZTTL4EPHA2HME4MNBLCPHXRQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:17:30.558386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc3339af8479c1a3b09c6342b13cf78c3e60fce2275876abeb610a054844f004

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10470 · arxiv_version: 1711.10470v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10470 · pith_short_12: XQZTTL4EPHA2 · pith_short_16: XQZTTL4EPHA2HME4 · pith_short_8: XQZTTL4E

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/XQZTTL4EPHA2HME4MNBLCPHXRQ \
  | 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: bc3339af8479c1a3b09c6342b13cf78c3e60fce2275876abeb610a054844f004

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a1fd134271a75d079debafa683b5e68a66169c08aa2298d8854a03b7bee68ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T18:58:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6172fe09df1bc8f7209dd773c705bb91e2156f30aeaa7c1e4a0e8ef048d9faf9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10470",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}