Pith Number

pith:2U6BTVJB

pith:2010:2U6BTVJBIXW5QS745JL5EB5E4G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information embedding meets distributed control

Aaron B. Wagner, Anant Sahai, Pulkit Grover

arxiv:1003.0520 v1 · 2010-03-02 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2U6BTVJBIXW5QS745JL5EB5E4G}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:47.671554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d53c19d52145edd84bfcea57d207a4e18a1cd28ff0e74c103ff63fdcad29e4fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.0520 · arxiv_version: 1003.0520v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.0520 · pith_short_12: 2U6BTVJBIXW5 · pith_short_16: 2U6BTVJBIXW5QS74 · pith_short_8: 2U6BTVJB

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/2U6BTVJBIXW5QS745JL5EB5E4G \
  | 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: d53c19d52145edd84bfcea57d207a4e18a1cd28ff0e74c103ff63fdcad29e4fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3fbd5d8e2d26e9ac9c96aa092d9137dde3c94489d441628c283d37e21cc3eba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-02T08:36:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca3bc4fe603ce4110484a8e03615cc85245b83b8e73554150363d53c56d28a1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.0520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}