Pith Number

pith:4V7WQ6V4

pith:2018:4V7WQ6V4YATL3RZMLLAEPWVOEU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Letter to the Editor

Marco Geraci

arxiv:1806.07176 v2 · 2018-06-19 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4V7WQ6V4YATL3RZMLLAEPWVOEU}

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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	2026-05-17T23:43:56.671441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e57f687abcc026bdc72c5ac047daae250363e14ff42035cd9cb27205a50dcefa

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.07176 · arxiv_version: 1806.07176v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.07176 · pith_short_12: 4V7WQ6V4YATL · pith_short_16: 4V7WQ6V4YATL3RZM · pith_short_8: 4V7WQ6V4

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/4V7WQ6V4YATL3RZMLLAEPWVOEU \
  | 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: e57f687abcc026bdc72c5ac047daae250363e14ff42035cd9cb27205a50dcefa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18b08df0d85331942b0dc7da49f3f726a2b9f4e68cca2f1a3ba3331966ba2f50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-19T12:13:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a84ada31965b03ba9ec690daa718d883d36d9326094fa2ecfee98a8e1861f665"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.07176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}