Pith Number

pith:4ZKVXJNQ

pith:2026:4ZKVXJNQ3OY5OUPIYO4NKOW7BN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Merit or networks? What decides where research is published

Ning Li

arxiv:2606.03763 v1 · 2026-06-02 · econ.GN · cs.AI · q-fin.EC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ZKVXJNQ3OY5OUPIYO4NKOW7BN}

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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	2026-06-03T02:06:01.779999Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6555ba5b0dbb1d751e8c3b8d53adf0b4cb03ae942b672909f66fce0848d5a8a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.03763 · arxiv_version: 2606.03763v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.03763 · pith_short_12: 4ZKVXJNQ3OY5 · pith_short_16: 4ZKVXJNQ3OY5OUPI · pith_short_8: 4ZKVXJNQ

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/4ZKVXJNQ3OY5OUPIYO4NKOW7BN \
  | 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: e6555ba5b0dbb1d751e8c3b8d53adf0b4cb03ae942b672909f66fce0848d5a8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a10c2dfc1e317989ad9b96cf1ad3bc48bd67af18f21340a15cdf7a66e2c29eaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T15:18:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "825d7252765eee124a33dfca62ad0f6ca32b475f68f27de557975c35564baf48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.03763",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}