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Pith Number

pith:XX5ZS3V2

pith:2017:XX5ZS3V24V6RNWFWO4XEG7GAS2
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Equating two maximum degrees

Christina Zarb, Josef Lauri, Yair Caro

arxiv:1704.08472 v1 · 2017-04-27 · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XX5ZS3V24V6RNWFWO4XEG7GAS2}

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2 Internet Archive
3 Author claim open · sign in to claim
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 2026-05-18T00:45:27.606560Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bdfb996ebae57d16d8b6772e437cc096a93e8ffb3dd87dd98bb8788ecf1bd975

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.08472 · arxiv_version: 1704.08472v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.08472 · pith_short_12: XX5ZS3V24V6R · pith_short_16: XX5ZS3V24V6RNWFW · pith_short_8: XX5ZS3V2
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XX5ZS3V24V6RNWFWO4XEG7GAS2 \
  | 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: bdfb996ebae57d16d8b6772e437cc096a93e8ffb3dd87dd98bb8788ecf1bd975
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3ad781df3f422322e9a786ffae886680c25a980d8dccb47bce60074fe1dbecd1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-27T08:18:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bd6e3d29f09153b2d13a581fc9169907b475399ecfa8e9482ab42f61b94160a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.08472",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}