Pith Number

pith:257J3PQ3

pith:2015:257J3PQ3MQYG2INJ4DNIZ7BT6M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Canonical, Stable, General Mapping using Context Schemes

Adam Novak, Benedict Paten, David Haussler, Yohei Rosen

arxiv:1501.04128 v3 · 2015-01-16 · q-bio.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{257J3PQ3MQYG2INJ4DNIZ7BT6M}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T01:34:42.092814Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d77e9dbe1b64306d21a9e0da8cfc33f30d9ad26a9a0e7c821addbfcc8aea7773

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.04128 · arxiv_version: 1501.04128v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.04128 · pith_short_12: 257J3PQ3MQYG · pith_short_16: 257J3PQ3MQYG2INJ · pith_short_8: 257J3PQ3

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/257J3PQ3MQYG2INJ4DNIZ7BT6M \
  | 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: d77e9dbe1b64306d21a9e0da8cfc33f30d9ad26a9a0e7c821addbfcc8aea7773

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e8964e95fa82e52d0f28fc7d9b4f093a2d6d1f113445bcf12c0203a7973f14b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-16T23:00:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2615292db7441b77e094e5280ca4b63e00ca4c47689047916ecd9a9404fbb46d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.04128",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}