Pith Number

pith:4PSJ762T

pith:2018:4PSJ762T6I3HQNWZA2L3DVFSCQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structure and Stability of Internet Top Lists

Georg Carle, Jonas Jelten, Luca Ciprian, Oliver Hohlfeld, Quirin Scheitle

arxiv:1802.02651 v1 · 2018-02-07 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PSJ762T6I3HQNWZA2L3DVFSCQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:03.451688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3e49ffb53f2367836d90697b1d4b2140775efd95f01cde8ab430b7e1269de86

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02651 · arxiv_version: 1802.02651v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02651 · pith_short_12: 4PSJ762T6I3H · pith_short_16: 4PSJ762T6I3HQNWZ · pith_short_8: 4PSJ762T

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/4PSJ762T6I3HQNWZA2L3DVFSCQ \
  | 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: e3e49ffb53f2367836d90697b1d4b2140775efd95f01cde8ab430b7e1269de86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f39229c31f6dda5df661675c0de2700698d402eff49d6b8fcd8c5da0146ca44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-07T21:50:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "91436702b3ea0819e75b89bdc6a6d7aa38aeaf483e8d7adf036750a0095dc41b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02651",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}