Pith Number

pith:6PVOHGT2

pith:2026:6PVOHGT2P5TDQL2PGXESFNVQSZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Application Failures and Machine Computational Efficiency

Bethany Lusch, Carlo Graziani, O. E. Bronson Messer

arxiv:2608.05408 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6PVOHGT2P5TDQL2PGXESFNVQSZ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-08-07T00:47:48.945232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3eae39a7a7f66382f4f35c922b6b096654dcfe77a0a29188d31e1a36449c837

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05408 · arxiv_version: 2608.05408v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05408 · pith_short_12: 6PVOHGT2P5TD · pith_short_16: 6PVOHGT2P5TDQL2P · pith_short_8: 6PVOHGT2

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/6PVOHGT2P5TDQL2PGXESFNVQSZ \
  | 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: f3eae39a7a7f66382f4f35c922b6b096654dcfe77a0a29188d31e1a36449c837

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ebf93735b1258ba47c6d85cdb3c84e6bf896af832a1b735b7d987549b394cf8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T21:01:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d80401b1d8a319ae545f61745c01af062940800c30e1350fd581cc0a95b643eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}