Pith Number

pith:2VBALB7V

pith:2017:2VBALB7VIOVVQFOGFJR5FX2ZLH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pairing heaps: the forward variant

Dani Dorfman, Haim Kaplan, L\'aszl\'o Kozma, Uri Zwick

arxiv:1709.01152 v2 · 2017-09-04 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VBALB7VIOVVQFOGFJR5FX2ZLH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:43.874624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5420587f543ab5815c62a63d2df5959d7c8cc1882cf6d6363dec036bc1da0bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.01152 · arxiv_version: 1709.01152v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.01152 · pith_short_12: 2VBALB7VIOVV · pith_short_16: 2VBALB7VIOVVQFOG · pith_short_8: 2VBALB7V

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/2VBALB7VIOVVQFOGFJR5FX2ZLH \
  | 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: d5420587f543ab5815c62a63d2df5959d7c8cc1882cf6d6363dec036bc1da0bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6a9ece92eea97656c6d8a925fd8fca15598acc7c8bb8fa4429bf38bbc18f78dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-04T20:57:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4e5b233267d9260202d5b4ee400fd8b4669c6b51802e31ca5747368f0790a52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.01152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}