Pith Number

pith:XVLQJQGI

pith:2004:XVLQJQGI3DTQVRJQWKEJK3VWYK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Generalised Connections and Curvature

James A. Vickers, Michael Kunzinger, Roland Steinbauer

arxiv:math/0403040 v2 · 2004-03-02 · math.FA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XVLQJQGI3DTQVRJQWKEJK3VWYK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:05:26.546716Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd5704c0c8d8e70ac530b288956eb6c2bc630c5fb6028d99266824fe8061c4f8

Aliases

arxiv: math/0403040 · arxiv_version: math/0403040v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0403040 · pith_short_12: XVLQJQGI3DTQ · pith_short_16: XVLQJQGI3DTQVRJQ · pith_short_8: XVLQJQGI

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/XVLQJQGI3DTQVRJQWKEJK3VWYK \
  | 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: bd5704c0c8d8e70ac530b288956eb6c2bc630c5fb6028d99266824fe8061c4f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e146427aed42d795fee0fae9919f105309bd22e3b9eae15157b63dc25ef03ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.FA",
    "submitted_at": "2004-03-02T14:28:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0094fb116bb67e0489b152c26d95592647ae6a3913255a9ce312ada96fb6f47f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0403040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}