Pith Number

pith:3C4GYRTO

pith:2012:3C4GYRTOX2JACWX2CUGTP4GRZH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributing Content Simplifies ISP Traffic Engineering

Abhigyan Sharma, Arun Venkataramani, Ramesh Sitaraman

arxiv:1209.5715 v1 · 2012-09-25 · 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{3C4GYRTOX2JACWX2CUGTP4GRZH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:44:47.742910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8b86c466ebe92015afa150d37f0d1c9dc47d3289872612521eea6cc29f26171

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.5715 · arxiv_version: 1209.5715v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.5715 · pith_short_12: 3C4GYRTOX2JA · pith_short_16: 3C4GYRTOX2JACWX2 · pith_short_8: 3C4GYRTO

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/3C4GYRTOX2JACWX2CUGTP4GRZH \
  | 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: d8b86c466ebe92015afa150d37f0d1c9dc47d3289872612521eea6cc29f26171

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1b499ba190715d97534564546d57eec2871dff15ef41d2c2e2d983d515578c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-25T18:41:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24ed8ec6b82dc1694fe8469b83078f4e2c5d60328e131a4f3e54a28f5917e255"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.5715",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}