Pith Number

pith:4P3LV343

pith:2026:4P3LV343EWOWLE33G2JD5BDI6L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to Beat FCFS

Itai Ashlagi, Joseph Root

arxiv:2608.11710 v1 · 2026-08-12 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4P3LV343EWOWLE33G2JD5BDI6L}

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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	2026-08-13T01:27:53.769156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3f6baef9b259d65937b36923e8468f2f2bfe6381038a5e76b6b01fc956cf400

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11710 · arxiv_version: 2608.11710v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11710 · pith_short_12: 4P3LV343EWOW · pith_short_16: 4P3LV343EWOWLE33 · pith_short_8: 4P3LV343

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/4P3LV343EWOWLE33G2JD5BDI6L \
  | 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: e3f6baef9b259d65937b36923e8468f2f2bfe6381038a5e76b6b01fc956cf400

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33bcef129bb61446ddc59250995861e2f4f0c84901b7b1a74a1f855ad5615cde",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T06:46:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "235a07cd0a7fe44da087966218e209b38cd347d7c066a7ab707e72aaf0e97dc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11710",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}