Pith Number

pith:MIV2XSDK

pith:2018:MIV2XSDKF3KTBNPPOYBZNAXPDV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tensor network ranks

Ke Ye, Lek-Heng Lim

arxiv:1801.02662 v2 · 2018-01-08 · math.NA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MIV2XSDKF3KTBNPPOYBZNAXPDV}

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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	2026-05-17T23:54:26.472619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

622babc86a2ed530b5ef76039682ef1d58633489620bc48e64de7c80afe3c600

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.02662 · arxiv_version: 1801.02662v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.02662 · pith_short_12: MIV2XSDKF3KT · pith_short_16: MIV2XSDKF3KTBNPP · pith_short_8: MIV2XSDK

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/MIV2XSDKF3KTBNPPOYBZNAXPDV \
  | 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: 622babc86a2ed530b5ef76039682ef1d58633489620bc48e64de7c80afe3c600

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30de230900dd499496e2d024c0ff204973784029ee6b5974c5472c26b4fb00ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-08T19:55:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d5397e2b73ede6a69c5cc6b4998002b857c8b220e26863a6de0fe4d396d86c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.02662",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}