Pith Number

pith:33HJXBUA

pith:2017:33HJXBUANX7BBV5SYQUDPACD5B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Glitch Phenomenon

Leslie Lamport, Richard Palais

arxiv:1704.01154 v1 · 2017-04-04 · cs.IT · math.DS · math.IT · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{33HJXBUANX7BBV5SYQUDPACD5B}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:00.216965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dece9b86806dfe10d7b2c428378043e874ddff8af2704c26696ff94ae5f8d960

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.01154 · arxiv_version: 1704.01154v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.01154 · pith_short_12: 33HJXBUANX7B · pith_short_16: 33HJXBUANX7BBV5S · pith_short_8: 33HJXBUA

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/33HJXBUANX7BBV5SYQUDPACD5B \
  | 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: dece9b86806dfe10d7b2c428378043e874ddff8af2704c26696ff94ae5f8d960

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f36ca8cc57267d9f2ac5358fd0d8030a304eb83fcba7addb5f1130a6ebe4a668",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.DS",
      "math.IT",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-04T18:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84327608c12235af774aca7e01607fadc86251268738b0fbf5a738ce52b38c4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.01154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}