Pith Number

pith:3VSEFWSK

pith:2012:3VSEFWSKZUXTCKQZHD2LKHHDSC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Jianneng Cao, Panagiotis Karras

arxiv:1208.0220 v1 · 2012-08-01 · cs.DB

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VSEFWSKZUXTCKQZHD2LKHHDSC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:35.900516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd6442da4acd2f312a1938f4b51ce390b755c0d8d8a7e2a59175ff65e82164d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.0220 · arxiv_version: 1208.0220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.0220 · pith_short_12: 3VSEFWSKZUXT · pith_short_16: 3VSEFWSKZUXTCKQZ · pith_short_8: 3VSEFWSK

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/3VSEFWSKZUXTCKQZHD2LKHHDSC \
  | 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: dd6442da4acd2f312a1938f4b51ce390b755c0d8d8a7e2a59175ff65e82164d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41f2bb0f858d444936af5f22ad419d79783f4ed0f0994b541c5522811d543da1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-01T14:11:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "139b74da628431b3b32c0880f20d2e806b9f8ead7944bb24ff30044a7cc2343a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.0220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}