Pith Number

pith:4L5MDA2B

pith:2014:4L5MDA2B3UKMZ4J4HPSFL56NSZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamic Partial Sorting

Jiamou Liu, Kostya Ross

arxiv:1402.2712 v3 · 2014-02-12 · cs.DS

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4L5MDA2B3UKMZ4J4HPSFL56NSZ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:53:55.835451Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2fac18341dd14ccf13c3be455f7cd965a4e0401b83d03d6bf8f02edb0ffe795

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.2712 · arxiv_version: 1402.2712v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.2712 · pith_short_12: 4L5MDA2B3UKM · pith_short_16: 4L5MDA2B3UKMZ4J4 · pith_short_8: 4L5MDA2B

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/4L5MDA2B3UKMZ4J4HPSFL56NSZ \
  | 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: e2fac18341dd14ccf13c3be455f7cd965a4e0401b83d03d6bf8f02edb0ffe795

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83c35989b150c1676ad0cccfa8c716bef1e33841239c635c4fcd92b0d92f3dea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-12T01:36:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e47a8bb1a6e497d890a2ef57877235af1e0c9d139d98ab40b21907a309f6694d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.2712",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}