Pith Number

pith:YM5H627B

pith:2024:YM5H627BD3ASYMCYZ4MZ3RBJEK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An exploration of the balance game

Leo Versteegen, Michael A. Henning, Paul Dorbec, Zsolt Tuza

arxiv:2409.01796 v1 · 2024-09-03 · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YM5H627BD3ASYMCYZ4MZ3RBJEK}

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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	2026-07-05T09:02:34.350639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c33a7f6be11ec12c3058cf199dc42922be2b5d6856a4bc9e99764e53d5dad6ff

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.01796 · arxiv_version: 2409.01796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.01796 · pith_short_12: YM5H627BD3AS · pith_short_16: YM5H627BD3ASYMCY · pith_short_8: YM5H627B

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/YM5H627BD3ASYMCYZ4MZ3RBJEK \
  | 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: c33a7f6be11ec12c3058cf199dc42922be2b5d6856a4bc9e99764e53d5dad6ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ceca117a8d2814e654dfb5720ea7062856dd0bed25f30db7ccb0bb8a8793f866",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-03T11:25:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e55d63a550bddcbc1f2572b18daae30cc62a964ee6d22679b5d7ab6993acc5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.01796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}