Pith Number

pith:3H6AVJQH

pith:2017:3H6AVJQHVNPY3GS5ZEHFW6MFEM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Status Updates Through Multicast Networks

Emina Soljanin, Jing Zhong, Roy D. Yates

arxiv:1709.02427 v4 · 2017-09-07 · cs.IT · cs.NI · math.IT

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3H6AVJQHVNPY3GS5ZEHFW6MFEM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:09.545938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9fc0aa607ab5f8d9a5dc90e5b7985231dda66847feef223c2bc5934c75766f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02427 · arxiv_version: 1709.02427v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02427 · pith_short_12: 3H6AVJQHVNPY · pith_short_16: 3H6AVJQHVNPY3GS5 · pith_short_8: 3H6AVJQH

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/3H6AVJQHVNPY3GS5ZEHFW6MFEM \
  | 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: d9fc0aa607ab5f8d9a5dc90e5b7985231dda66847feef223c2bc5934c75766f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d9ce943a80fa0e261033c02fd5a8eaf2beecf2f2975d18a148616dac01b8686",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NI",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-07T19:52:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8a47b6de5ff732ef48ae9ac5223c1a49997d8ac3e681589049a6f798f8eb33f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}