Pith Number

pith:5NZJDUNI

pith:2019:5NZJDUNI2VBK5AVQTB42JAGLWF

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Cristina V. Lopes, Rohan Achar

arxiv:1904.06584 v1 · 2019-04-13 · cs.PL · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5NZJDUNI2VBK5AVQTB42JAGLWF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:38.762356Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb7291d1a8d542ae82b09879a480cbb164e7a8f8381ab304f81f68348241a357

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.06584 · arxiv_version: 1904.06584v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.06584 · pith_short_12: 5NZJDUNI2VBK · pith_short_16: 5NZJDUNI2VBK5AVQ · pith_short_8: 5NZJDUNI

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/5NZJDUNI2VBK5AVQTB42JAGLWF \
  | 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: eb7291d1a8d542ae82b09879a480cbb164e7a8f8381ab304f81f68348241a357

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6587e0e0b3d49fdd831b7b3bec78dedd2c36cacddafb4cb961803687a889e5aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-13T18:51:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9073d2b4d510e96644a885058aaf8d1f067fd570d44530f4b866ecbb6416e845"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.06584",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}