Pith Number

pith:NBHJJRYY

pith:2018:NBHJJRYY4GSCMHW4QBF7ZOVZBQ

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On self-avoiding polygons and walks: the snake method via polygon joining

Alan Hammond

arxiv:1808.10500 v3 · 2018-08-30 · math.PR · math.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBHJJRYY4GSCMHW4QBF7ZOVZBQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:12.924655Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

684e94c718e1a4261edc804bfcbab90c0f65ac9055c33441cfcca83f77a0b376

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.10500 · arxiv_version: 1808.10500v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.10500 · pith_short_12: NBHJJRYY4GSC · pith_short_16: NBHJJRYY4GSCMHW4 · pith_short_8: NBHJJRYY

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/NBHJJRYY4GSCMHW4QBF7ZOVZBQ \
  | 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: 684e94c718e1a4261edc804bfcbab90c0f65ac9055c33441cfcca83f77a0b376

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57407ab9eda45f8518a93c60e6257ce032a8f0dfa306a319df60b3693042e0bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-30T19:59:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e1b5d252ad39caddf7d07c667f09b816a7376f7b4a19141c9b2293dec8933d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.10500",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}