Pith Number

pith:5AEAMAQF

pith:2018:5AEAMAQFTSMOSHJYL74BFBO2W2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Courtesy as a Means to Coordinate

Boi Faltings, Panayiotis Danassis

arxiv:1801.07140 v5 · 2018-01-22 · cs.MA

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5AEAMAQFTSMOSHJYL74BFBO2W2}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:46.473450Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8080602059c98e91d385ff81285dab6a8ba35f7e44a9924059e3dcbf3301358

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.07140 · arxiv_version: 1801.07140v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.07140 · pith_short_12: 5AEAMAQFTSMO · pith_short_16: 5AEAMAQFTSMOSHJY · pith_short_8: 5AEAMAQF

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/5AEAMAQFTSMOSHJYL74BFBO2W2 \
  | 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: e8080602059c98e91d385ff81285dab6a8ba35f7e44a9924059e3dcbf3301358

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50df1e3f3ed0d1caa55584580845e6613b5865e51f89e3fae61cf8363bc48f50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-22T15:35:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3340ef46280b722065d18e507283e86ad02d414a31487f29808a23f978fc874d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.07140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}