Pith Number

pith:2T4V5EG7

pith:2014:2T4V5EG7IYPC6MTRTEUAZTKCDE

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Sign-Compute-Resolve for Random Access

Cedomir Stefanovic, Jasper Goseling, Petar Popovski

arxiv:1409.6902 v1 · 2014-09-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2T4V5EG7IYPC6MTRTEUAZTKCDE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:00.248382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4f95e90df461e2f327199280ccd42191cf97073b81d91a991c365729f27b5dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.6902 · arxiv_version: 1409.6902v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.6902 · pith_short_12: 2T4V5EG7IYPC · pith_short_16: 2T4V5EG7IYPC6MTR · pith_short_8: 2T4V5EG7

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/2T4V5EG7IYPC6MTRTEUAZTKCDE \
  | 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: d4f95e90df461e2f327199280ccd42191cf97073b81d91a991c365729f27b5dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8924d8a76103e5ebffba0584ae4f5613ff7944b4e249f9dec62c757d9673e18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-24T11:16:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b769fa4db2970a12cc696d3543599ea522469175d226c16398c324111b64589"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.6902",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}