Pith Number

pith:2JIDC6B7

pith:2026:2JIDC6B7GNWO7XDNZOIVSRT7HN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Missing Adapter Layer for Research Computing

Alessandro Umberto D'Aloia, Bowen Li, Chelsea Wang, Fengling Han, Jiazhu Xie, Ziqi Xu

arxiv:2603.23942 v3 · 2026-03-25 · cs.CE · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2JIDC6B7GNWO7XDNZOIVSRT7HN}

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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	2026-07-22T00:22:33.821046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d25031783f336cefdc6dcb9159467f3b7c9c71742f2b49e7fd520ad2d77de9de

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.23942 · arxiv_version: 2603.23942v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.23942 · pith_short_12: 2JIDC6B7GNWO · pith_short_16: 2JIDC6B7GNWO7XDN · pith_short_8: 2JIDC6B7

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/2JIDC6B7GNWO7XDNZOIVSRT7HN \
  | 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: d25031783f336cefdc6dcb9159467f3b7c9c71742f2b49e7fd520ad2d77de9de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2958c72283aeb79846a7491c29220a88f09715df10acd62b831d42a0cc50b4ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-25T05:04:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c378e36e072329a38467c503498529f58e606c093ba2888ce6a5e1cd8eb72309"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.23942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}