Pith Number

pith:IJF2EOWQ

pith:2011:IJF2EOWQSGW5NV63Y6W64CTD56

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A Fascinating Polynomial Sequence arising from an Electrostatics Problem on the Sphere

C. E. van de Woestijne, E. B. Saff, J. S. Brauchart, P. D. Dragnev

arxiv:1103.3086 v1 · 2011-03-16 · math-ph · math.MP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IJF2EOWQSGW5NV63Y6W64CTD56}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:59:06.752635Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

424ba23ad091add6d7dbc7adee0a63efbccfc2d0bbe6ad0febd7ac886f2dc40c

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.3086 · arxiv_version: 1103.3086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.3086 · pith_short_12: IJF2EOWQSGW5 · pith_short_16: IJF2EOWQSGW5NV63 · pith_short_8: IJF2EOWQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IJF2EOWQSGW5NV63Y6W64CTD56 \
  | 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: 424ba23ad091add6d7dbc7adee0a63efbccfc2d0bbe6ad0febd7ac886f2dc40c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94d91308311f5aa8741e899837ec05506db123467f654def8adeb4620ff7ab57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-16T03:25:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5514f00a01eed1c9489b4e5ddf6f20905cc405af79e395ef2a8be49ec6b75f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.3086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}