Pith Number

pith:5BWXU2ZZ

pith:2016:5BWXU2ZZC6JLCI3HPMT5GSKAJB

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Djamal Belazzougui, Qin Zhang

arxiv:1607.04200 v1 · 2016-07-14 · cs.DS

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5BWXU2ZZC6JLCI3HPMT5GSKAJB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:03.900886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e86d7a6b391792b123677b27d34940485692af3becdc623dd6152766faa583a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.04200 · arxiv_version: 1607.04200v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04200 · pith_short_12: 5BWXU2ZZC6JL · pith_short_16: 5BWXU2ZZC6JLCI3H · pith_short_8: 5BWXU2ZZ

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/5BWXU2ZZC6JLCI3HPMT5GSKAJB \
  | 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: e86d7a6b391792b123677b27d34940485692af3becdc623dd6152766faa583a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6449118edea677f3c04fa0db81860a2971fa8808ef17a93a62a970b604ab2e78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-14T16:38:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41545547d70d2e64ed8e3638cd92e275fe2960e75940d03e51ca45c48745df45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.04200",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}