Pith Number

pith:4IHZ5VGV

pith:2012:4IHZ5VGV6O6IMUNU6QZJ6OE66H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A note on quasi-alternating Montesinos links

Abhijit Champanerkar, Philip Ording

arxiv:1205.5261 v2 · 2012-05-23 · math.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4IHZ5VGV6O6IMUNU6QZJ6OE66H}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:27:32.876935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e20f9ed4d5f3bc8651b4f4329f389ef1f7a186109337d459e4bebb22b651923c

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5261 · arxiv_version: 1205.5261v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5261 · pith_short_12: 4IHZ5VGV6O6I · pith_short_16: 4IHZ5VGV6O6IMUNU · pith_short_8: 4IHZ5VGV

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/4IHZ5VGV6O6IMUNU6QZJ6OE66H \
  | 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: e20f9ed4d5f3bc8651b4f4329f389ef1f7a186109337d459e4bebb22b651923c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "77fb4f4f7f0b4002c4dc5cd313c8f3cf2b7e124e1b6a27b6fbb5dd35871591b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-23T19:35:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d873bc46bd01f321193ac967946c9304ecaf5a1a207dd7e1dceba73166f3fd5a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}