Pith Number

pith:4VB5STEX

pith:2023:4VB5STEXL7KSQO2ORIZJQ5ZFMQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Soft Gripping: Specifying for Trustworthiness

Alix J. Partridge, Arianna Manzini, Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama, Graham Deacon, Greg Chance, John Downer, Jonathan Ives, Jonathan Rossiter, Kerstin Eder, Nguyen Hao Le, Peter D. Winter, Shane Windsor

arxiv:2307.01159 v2 · 2023-07-03 · cs.RO · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VB5STEXL7KSQO2ORIZJQ5ZFMQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T07:07:13.013998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e543d94c975fd5283b4e8a32987725642a499fc79bbd3263c02aabacb72cf856

Aliases

arxiv: 2307.01159 · arxiv_version: 2307.01159v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2307.01159 · pith_short_12: 4VB5STEXL7KS · pith_short_16: 4VB5STEXL7KSQO2O · pith_short_8: 4VB5STEX

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/4VB5STEXL7KSQO2ORIZJQ5ZFMQ \
  | 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: e543d94c975fd5283b4e8a32987725642a499fc79bbd3263c02aabacb72cf856

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "218ebbceaf627461e592e033f869e7cfbe70656e67e43bf0935bc05c9eb07c16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.RO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-07-03T17:10:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75da2c387a05f9dfd1433bb1e89bb6223cfdd216f98e167a9ff53c9409c2f097"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2307.01159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}