Pith Number

pith:XTCA2X6G

pith:2016:XTCA2X6G6EFHGKEYTPY7VTB5PG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Conway Polynomial and Amphicheiral Knots

James Conant, Vajira Manathunga

arxiv:1608.04453 v1 · 2016-08-16 · math.GT · math.AT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTCA2X6G6EFHGKEYTPY7VTB5PG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:37.251483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcc40d5fc6f10a7328989bf1facc3d79a5a3165fe821fadf951167182392c6a9

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04453 · arxiv_version: 1608.04453v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04453 · pith_short_12: XTCA2X6G6EFH · pith_short_16: XTCA2X6G6EFHGKEY · pith_short_8: XTCA2X6G

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/XTCA2X6G6EFHGKEYTPY7VTB5PG \
  | 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: bcc40d5fc6f10a7328989bf1facc3d79a5a3165fe821fadf951167182392c6a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92542eec334d3d898cedf393064f258f7f580770af6da5aea0978b67e3853fc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.AT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-16T01:06:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96fc78db30effb174a67cce9d4d15f699e6c63ff47e82291a6c0277fc5b0edd2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04453",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}