Pith Number

pith:VVW6YLFO

pith:2016:VVW6YLFO6W3JYJAFJYNWOHU2ZA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamically distinguishing polynomials

Andrew Bridy, Derek Garton

arxiv:1609.09186 v3 · 2016-09-29 · math.DS · math.NT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVW6YLFO6W3JYJAFJYNWOHU2ZA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:28.970989Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad6dec2caef5b69c24054e1b671e9ac801ace12bd953636a6d21157d749990ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.09186 · arxiv_version: 1609.09186v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.09186 · pith_short_12: VVW6YLFO6W3J · pith_short_16: VVW6YLFO6W3JYJAF · pith_short_8: VVW6YLFO

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/VVW6YLFO6W3JYJAFJYNWOHU2ZA \
  | 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: ad6dec2caef5b69c24054e1b671e9ac801ace12bd953636a6d21157d749990ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39acf0a106e49e2583b379cc5e4b8c97916b319634cb5767a18b5bd42cbd5d0f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-29T03:14:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a1c57ba34dbdf5830b3bde3f72ae75715fc65ae7f50713ee4f6234022dadb23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.09186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}