Pith Number

pith:6QNK5O2O

pith:2026:6QNK5O2OBVBNNGTIOKQWM52F7Y

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Trait, Not State: The Durability of Reading Identity in Social Highlighting

Kazuki Nakayashiki, Keisuke Watanabe

arxiv:2606.12904 v1 · 2026-06-11 · cs.IR · cs.CL · cs.HC · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6QNK5O2OBVBNNGTIOKQWM52F7Y}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-12T01:09:31.971501Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f41aaebb4e0d42d69a6872a1667745fe0fecf5fc46eaf167f63d171cbcd34886

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.12904 · arxiv_version: 2606.12904v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12904 · pith_short_12: 6QNK5O2OBVBN · pith_short_16: 6QNK5O2OBVBNNGTI · pith_short_8: 6QNK5O2O

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/6QNK5O2OBVBNNGTIOKQWM52F7Y \
  | 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: f41aaebb4e0d42d69a6872a1667745fe0fecf5fc46eaf167f63d171cbcd34886

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "20a937fbf335909665c33bd97588303a3592a1377c40c5c8624a52dad51c36a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T04:59:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a025ad8a0fcfe8034447282e2da12c082837e2bc7b51f0be935ea5ba82513eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.12904",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}