Pith Number

pith:YKPLVGAT

pith:2018:YKPLVGATNJ277XDAMOIIPU6FPP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polynomial Continued Fractions

Doug Bowman, James Mc Laughlin

arxiv:1812.08251 v1 · 2018-12-19 · math.NT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKPLVGATNJ277XDAMOIIPU6FPP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:36.909229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c29eba98136a75ffdc60639087d3c57bd6b7ec64c0ac7da6c53a778550a4aa7b

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.08251 · arxiv_version: 1812.08251v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.08251 · pith_short_12: YKPLVGATNJ27 · pith_short_16: YKPLVGATNJ277XDA · pith_short_8: YKPLVGAT

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/YKPLVGATNJ277XDAMOIIPU6FPP \
  | 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: c29eba98136a75ffdc60639087d3c57bd6b7ec64c0ac7da6c53a778550a4aa7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "332d29177d3482de79db1aeac4a6a5dfd69b4141ab708dea81403955382d0838",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-19T21:28:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4d9b818e99ce58d25a43a42ddf68abe0a84243e6cc7f31127328280e0ecfa86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.08251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}