Pith Number

pith:VLQWMHYC

pith:2017:VLQWMHYCGWZDVWGQCI5AAMZDRW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multivalued Functions in Digital Topology

Laurence Boxer

arxiv:1703.01700 v1 · 2017-03-06 · math.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLQWMHYCGWZDVWGQCI5AAMZDRW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:29.922204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aae1661f0235b23ad8d0123a0033238d9fc2f9302ad3618afce277bc86cd9c77

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.01700 · arxiv_version: 1703.01700v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01700 · pith_short_12: VLQWMHYCGWZD · pith_short_16: VLQWMHYCGWZDVWGQ · pith_short_8: VLQWMHYC

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/VLQWMHYCGWZDVWGQCI5AAMZDRW \
  | 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: aae1661f0235b23ad8d0123a0033238d9fc2f9302ad3618afce277bc86cd9c77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c79b5f8b1337126421115f6aca83eea89a30eaa4bd0f541f9e6167d1006ebd43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-06T01:22:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aae7c0fb3fbb29d6a26108aec54b8e13c4587ad89b88cb99fe94296fc9224ccb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.01700",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}