Pith Number

pith:3BILXSEX

pith:2018:3BILXSEXBKVCJCEG2FA5DMCQWR

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The Temporary Exchange Problem

Edward Lee, Haris Aziz

arxiv:1807.05514 v1 · 2018-07-15 · cs.GT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3BILXSEXBKVCJCEG2FA5DMCQWR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:43.376773Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d850bbc8970aaa248886d141d1b050b4694802e96a38af5181552448595c8c12

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.05514 · arxiv_version: 1807.05514v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.05514 · pith_short_12: 3BILXSEXBKVC · pith_short_16: 3BILXSEXBKVCJCEG · pith_short_8: 3BILXSEX

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/3BILXSEXBKVCJCEG2FA5DMCQWR \
  | 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: d850bbc8970aaa248886d141d1b050b4694802e96a38af5181552448595c8c12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f35e4e015772f644cd1d3e4023ceea266eadb7968b61511867861df6a1b43b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-15T08:51:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "472e8a12f11a14dac2020c89806f64e570df1fe70f1a0a3abce844b444613c2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.05514",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}