Pith Number

pith:3B4B56EP

pith:2002:3B4B56EPHWKAKOF2S62Q4RFS2N

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An Approach to Automatic Indexing of Scientific Publications in High Energy Physics for Database SPIRES HEP

A.V. Averin (NSI, Hamburg), L.A. Vassilevskaya (DESY, Moscow)

arxiv:cs/0211041 v1 · 2002-11-28 · cs.IR · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3B4B56EPHWKAKOF2S62Q4RFS2N}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-04T14:24:28.809725Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8781ef88f3d940538ba97b50e44b2d3429bae9d0227c557481b1a8ec4d2fd7e

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0211041 · arxiv_version: cs/0211041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0211041 · pith_short_12: 3B4B56EPHWKA · pith_short_16: 3B4B56EPHWKAKOF2 · pith_short_8: 3B4B56EP

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/3B4B56EPHWKAKOF2S62Q4RFS2N \
  | 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: d8781ef88f3d940538ba97b50e44b2d3429bae9d0227c557481b1a8ec4d2fd7e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "026394065da499e4c0572b0dbcaa1866085ef171699a173a56ce96495eff604b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2002-11-28T17:33:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dfadae17f6cb84a109d42a9441afbe34d2cab114a7d843fcdf17af11523f0889"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0211041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}