Pith Number

pith:GCOIXLOF

pith:2026:GCOIXLOFZVIFTSBVM4PT5MUZBS

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The crisis of AI-generated mathematics

Max Weinreich

arxiv:2608.02859 v1 · 2026-08-03 · math.HO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GCOIXLOFZVIFTSBVM4PT5MUZBS}

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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	2026-08-05T00:43:10.148411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

309c8badc5cd5059c835671f3eb2990c950e292dcd0ff635a9a113444376cd1f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02859 · arxiv_version: 2608.02859v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02859 · pith_short_12: GCOIXLOFZVIF · pith_short_16: GCOIXLOFZVIFTSBV · pith_short_8: GCOIXLOF

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/GCOIXLOFZVIFTSBVM4PT5MUZBS \
  | 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: 309c8badc5cd5059c835671f3eb2990c950e292dcd0ff635a9a113444376cd1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f2416f7aa16109aa92d9f387bb3a618da9c03220dbe9f916795916430664568",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.HO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T20:27:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7b22977360b8f54f1780d6c1f41b2cb4a7f825cb11bef4bd9757eeadb78c017"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}