Pith Number

pith:4TAYFLEG

pith:2016:4TAYFLEGNORNH6CX3TANM2QVWT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A geometry where everything is better than nice

Larry Bates, Peter Gibson

arxiv:1603.06622 v1 · 2016-03-21 · math.DG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4TAYFLEGNORNH6CX3TANM2QVWT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:18:35.091361Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4c182ac866ba2d3f857dcc0d66a15b4f438fa5c979a32f1fba250e500e6b1d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.06622 · arxiv_version: 1603.06622v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06622 · pith_short_12: 4TAYFLEGNORN · pith_short_16: 4TAYFLEGNORNH6CX · pith_short_8: 4TAYFLEG

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/4TAYFLEGNORNH6CX3TANM2QVWT \
  | 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: e4c182ac866ba2d3f857dcc0d66a15b4f438fa5c979a32f1fba250e500e6b1d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebeb3c262dfab64c7f370f3087c0acef830f6c69000317f675431f762b70c436",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.DG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-21T21:26:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd796bf37814201cd81aa3a629e550c5c9e160a23e8ff252214c5f30f2af4a33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.06622",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}