Pith Number

pith:6DQUAPXO

pith:2019:6DQUAPXO5JKNHUFZVIAGOJK4SC

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Jakob Vo{\ss}

arxiv:1907.00259 v1 · 2019-06-29 · cs.DL · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6DQUAPXO5JKNHUFZVIAGOJK4SC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:52.332371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0e1403eeeea54d3d0b9aa0067255c90be01a910c66d08d9a9f8b5b677e66dff

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.00259 · arxiv_version: 1907.00259v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.00259 · pith_short_12: 6DQUAPXO5JKN · pith_short_16: 6DQUAPXO5JKNHUFZ · pith_short_8: 6DQUAPXO

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/6DQUAPXO5JKNHUFZVIAGOJK4SC \
  | 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: f0e1403eeeea54d3d0b9aa0067255c90be01a910c66d08d9a9f8b5b677e66dff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36b2fcfade7478dfd66b3987372f3cc8a916eae15731e2fe7ea65abea7ad9973",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-29T19:06:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db8d060d557b4258ee79579013b3ed97ba8ffd0d87b3879cefecf7599b7fe9b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.00259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}