Pith Number

pith:4O5V57R5

pith:2012:4O5V57R55KQ6KOHSJWEHQRO5GE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exploiting the `Web of Trust' to improve efficiency in collaborative networks

Patrick Maill\'e, Shreyas Sekar

arxiv:1202.2888 v1 · 2012-02-13 · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4O5V57R55KQ6KOHSJWEHQRO5GE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:02:24.697611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3bb5efe3deaa1e538f24d887845dd312be7aad2b3e8cf063eb74b3d0fdc2788

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2888 · arxiv_version: 1202.2888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2888 · pith_short_12: 4O5V57R55KQ6 · pith_short_16: 4O5V57R55KQ6KOHS · pith_short_8: 4O5V57R5

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/4O5V57R55KQ6KOHSJWEHQRO5GE \
  | 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: e3bb5efe3deaa1e538f24d887845dd312be7aad2b3e8cf063eb74b3d0fdc2788

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f97081c56157822e6d761d793e5bb45ad4b85fa5430bd1c51d7fae6121766f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-13T22:44:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87be18e5c13ec0a183bafc6614b37c25794ff5a36a1d1909ff01943b2dc63715"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}