Pith Number

pith:2ZCFYSIN

pith:2018:2ZCFYSINS4HFNLHKKUA6CTIIYQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Conceptual Analysis of Resource Meta-information

Christian Neuss, Robert E. Kent

arxiv:1811.12161 v1 · 2018-10-22 · cs.NI

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZCFYSINS4HFNLHKKUA6CTIIYQ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:34.267426Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6445c490d970e56acea5501e14d08c42c0516274e658fb2ec6e501c7960d332

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12161 · arxiv_version: 1811.12161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12161 · pith_short_12: 2ZCFYSINS4HF · pith_short_16: 2ZCFYSINS4HFNLHK · pith_short_8: 2ZCFYSIN

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/2ZCFYSINS4HFNLHKKUA6CTIIYQ \
  | 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: d6445c490d970e56acea5501e14d08c42c0516274e658fb2ec6e501c7960d332

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b502f2a2330446272895a71c44e0034fe2eefa16e084eca39a14490c75358f86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-22T21:33:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f2c860927084e34bd66809c7b834ecd7aad3602e4a0a80c0a4a223c7bc7f481"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}