Pith Number

pith:YBJGSNT6

pith:2011:YBJGSNT6ROW6VJI5YDWV245675

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new existence proof of the Monster by VOA theory

Ching Hung Lam, Robert L. Griess Jr.

arxiv:1103.1414 v2 · 2011-03-08 · math.QA · math.GR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YBJGSNT6ROW6VJI5YDWV245675}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T04:27:06.120203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c05269367e8badeaa51dc0ed5d73beff6fd9a289a1dff1629c978d11b531ac96

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.1414 · arxiv_version: 1103.1414v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.1414 · pith_short_12: YBJGSNT6ROW6 · pith_short_16: YBJGSNT6ROW6VJI5 · pith_short_8: YBJGSNT6

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/YBJGSNT6ROW6VJI5YDWV245675 \
  | 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: c05269367e8badeaa51dc0ed5d73beff6fd9a289a1dff1629c978d11b531ac96

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "779c8c641c9f154df9cb7bc5e97b20513fa67105b22a2ccdf8cde2e77693275a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.GR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.QA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-08T01:49:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "875b6ae076bcb0081bcd56455d7c835ccaa20d226e5084822e040bfd3ca0d4a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.1414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}