Pith Number record
pith:32OEUHNQ
pith:2018:32OEUHNQSH3RO25EJUBQQKUOHT
Protocol
content-addressed
Pith receipt
schema 1.0
- Author
- not author-attested
- Timestamp
- not externally anchored
- Storage
- storage not verified
- References
- references not resolved
LoTSS DR1: Double-double radio galaxies in the HETDEX field
Record completeness checklist
1
Anchor canonical hash to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps
open
Stamps the canonical SHA-256 (
de9c4a1db091f7176ba44d03...) across
three calendars. Confirms instantly. Calendars upgrade to a Bitcoin-block proof in a few hours.
2
Mirror to Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
open
Submits the paper URL to the Internet Archive and records the resulting Wayback capture
URL plus timestamp. Pith does not host the paper.
4
Sign a citation pointing at this record
open
Records a signed citation. Pick a relationship (supports, refutes, extends, uses_method,
depends_on, replaces, compares, cites). Pith signs the assertion server-side.
5
Submit replication, falsification, or formal bridge
open
Public record of a replication attempt, formal bridge (Lean / Coq), or falsification.
Held for moderation. Not peer review; a typed annotation.
Claims
Receipt
| First computed | 2026-05-17T23:52:39.683270Z |
|---|---|
| Builder | pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1 |
| Signature |
Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05, fingerprint 8d4b5ee74e4693bc…) · public key
|
| Signature value | S0mvJ2fPqkwEIXydK+9KBupghLK41dSrfKbSqdHkql+4nimM7q27TKCb5m1HwcFr9cVb5vGQwM3vEfViKPl0CQ== |
| Schema | pith-number/v1.0 |
Canonical hash
de9c4a1db091f7176ba44d03082a8e3cd4185d46ef9859876777e2cf770b8945
Aliases
| Kind | Value |
|---|---|
| arxiv | 1811.08194 |
| arxiv_version | 1811.08194v1 |
| doi | 10.48550/arxiv.1811.08194 |
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
Three shell lines recompute the canonical hash. If the hash you compute matches the one shown above, the record is intact end-to-end.
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/32OEUHNQSH3RO25EJUBQQKUOHT \
| 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: de9c4a1db091f7176ba44d03082a8e3cd4185d46ef9859876777e2cf770b8945
Verify the Pith Ed25519 signature against the published public key:
curl -s https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json | jq -r .public_key_b64 \
| base64 -d > /tmp/pith_pub.bin
python3 -c "
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
import base64
pub = Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(open('/tmp/pith_pub.bin','rb').read())
sig = base64.b64decode('S0mvJ2fPqkwEIXydK+9KBupghLK41dSrfKbSqdHkql+4nimM7q27TKCb5m1HwcFr9cVb5vGQwM3vEfViKPl0CQ==')
digest = bytes.fromhex('de9c4a1db091f7176ba44d03082a8e3cd4185d46ef9859876777e2cf770b8945')
pub.verify(sig, digest)
print('signature OK')"
Show canonical record JSON
{
"metadata": {
"abstract_canon_sha256": "9706956b740bd3b2a9523ee68e195a2f85057b8f13098f8c96ac974f1dda4016",
"cross_cats_sorted": [
"astro-ph.HE"
],
"license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
"primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
"submitted_at": "2018-11-20T11:40:48Z",
"title_canon_sha256": "40c0a7420646c0324add9bbf5155f121817412071ecb39dd46631736fa78f965"
},
"schema_version": "1.0",
"source": {
"id": "1811.08194",
"kind": "arxiv",
"version": 1
}
}