Pith Number

pith:5NGMNAFR

pith:2019:5NGMNAFRND7VAGSKPL3MQLHNGX

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Anil K. Jain, Joshua J. Engelsma, Vishesh Mistry

arxiv:1912.07195 v3 · 2019-12-16 · cs.CV

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5NGMNAFRND7VAGSKPL3MQLHNGX}

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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	2026-07-05T01:09:56.996701Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb4cc680b168ff501a4a7af6c82ced35f619d598bdce4eb67c8b9f73058bb6e2

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.07195 · arxiv_version: 1912.07195v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.07195 · pith_short_12: 5NGMNAFRND7V · pith_short_16: 5NGMNAFRND7VAGSK · pith_short_8: 5NGMNAFR

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/5NGMNAFRND7VAGSKPL3MQLHNGX \
  | 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: eb4cc680b168ff501a4a7af6c82ced35f619d598bdce4eb67c8b9f73058bb6e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87ab95b5a5d8eb2b8ac0dacb312772afda39e0639dcc7e390718dd5b72dcacfe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-16T05:09:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "244c7d89494bf5994177572f46d64e4fdff8c202b3201c095ca65f60007b5e67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.07195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}