Pith Number

pith:YVFYAGCM

pith:1998:YVFYAGCMOGJ2INMBVB746BTVVL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Supersimple fields and division rings

Anand Pillay, Frank Wagner, Thomas Scanlon

arxiv:math/9809189 v1 · 1998-09-30 · math.RA

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVFYAGCMOGJ2INMBVB746BTVVL}

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	2026-07-04T14:40:48.610593Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c54b80184c7193a43581a87fcf0675aae9bbc41ae4340121af8450d614a00cee

Aliases

arxiv: math/9809189 · arxiv_version: math/9809189v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9809189 · pith_short_12: YVFYAGCMOGJ2 · pith_short_16: YVFYAGCMOGJ2INMB · pith_short_8: YVFYAGCM

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/YVFYAGCMOGJ2INMBVB746BTVVL \
  | 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: c54b80184c7193a43581a87fcf0675aae9bbc41ae4340121af8450d614a00cee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e36d4f27b14a778b6bcf7160f5d94971cef68f059f00addcd47f36e5748880bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.RA",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-30T19:06:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "908599fe32dae167c707e9851ca612bc38384483a7f18fedac616d59426f678a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9809189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}