Pith Number

pith:ZA2SZTNR

pith:1996:ZA2SZTNRSYNWVGHEJ7SHZFYHPA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Jaeger's Higman-Sims state model and the B_2 spider

Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis)

arxiv:math/9601221 v1 · 1996-01-22 · math.QA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZA2SZTNRSYNWVGHEJ7SHZFYHPA}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:05:47.828171Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8352ccdb1961b6a98e44fe47c9707781677e7990238ef037273795b9f8f66ac

Aliases

arxiv: math/9601221 · arxiv_version: math/9601221v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/9601221 · pith_short_12: ZA2SZTNRSYNW · pith_short_16: ZA2SZTNRSYNWVGHE · pith_short_8: ZA2SZTNR

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/ZA2SZTNRSYNWVGHEJ7SHZFYHPA \
  | 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: c8352ccdb1961b6a98e44fe47c9707781677e7990238ef037273795b9f8f66ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8254d5499caadefc87c1ffcae6d6876ed9c045ebe16c71f00dc5ead2d901264",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.QA",
    "submitted_at": "1996-01-22T00:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9ad820394f0c4c7ca17db7c8bbeaefe93c4676f87d2f90e8e3da96041fdcb52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/9601221",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}