Pith Number

pith:RQ626ZLP

pith:2001:RQ626ZLPADGXCCV6AMBD46OQIW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A geometric interpretation of Milnor's triple linking numbers

Blake Mellor, Paul Melvin

arxiv:math/0110001 v3 · 2001-09-28 · math.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQ626ZLPADGXCCV6AMBD46OQIW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:33.224190Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c3daf656f00cd710abe03023e79d045b96be513c304dfb385a7f59c9caf2b68

Aliases

arxiv: math/0110001 · arxiv_version: math/0110001v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0110001 · pith_short_12: RQ626ZLPADGX · pith_short_16: RQ626ZLPADGXCCV6 · pith_short_8: RQ626ZLP

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/RQ626ZLPADGXCCV6AMBD46OQIW \
  | 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: 8c3daf656f00cd710abe03023e79d045b96be513c304dfb385a7f59c9caf2b68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee053824f5cad2fb2c46c98b9c4d9a3833f43770cf8a531b86c1175a971fbfbf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2001-09-28T21:18:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c74ee36268291302732357a829c31e4ddd24f32c556e8e3076076d3fe0a77fe7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0110001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}