Pith Number

pith:4Y44OYE5

pith:2026:4Y44OYE5KK4YOQLUDGUGIZFK2K

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How Software Engineering Students Use LLMs to Write Research Papers: An Experience Report

Cleyton Magalhaes, Italo Santos, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Ronnie de Souza Santos

arxiv:2606.05114 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4Y44OYE5KK4YOQLUDGUGIZFK2K}

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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	2026-06-04T01:10:06.845131Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e639c7609d52b987417419a86464aad2be0ca785dac17c631918a4fe5df6228a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.05114 · arxiv_version: 2606.05114v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.05114 · pith_short_12: 4Y44OYE5KK4Y · pith_short_16: 4Y44OYE5KK4YOQLU · pith_short_8: 4Y44OYE5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4Y44OYE5KK4YOQLUDGUGIZFK2K \
  | 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: e639c7609d52b987417419a86464aad2be0ca785dac17c631918a4fe5df6228a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2aa4901d8276997531ab8c42d29bb2ba42f1fde6cc5bd8656649765bdc15b1de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T17:19:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ced3736a0dbc891543dc827e555aa64e7d8e7ba89e57d56488e0c71b05fd972"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.05114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}