Pith Number

pith:6Y3O2VLP

pith:2016:6Y3O2VLPMB53RAYLCETU4EW7OI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Age of Information: The Gamma Awakening

Elie Najm, Rajai Nasser

arxiv:1604.01286 v1 · 2016-04-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6Y3O2VLPMB53RAYLCETU4EW7OI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:38.609974Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f636ed556f607bb8830b11274e12df72373e5f61f3016d2bd3d0b8d917c76dca

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.01286 · arxiv_version: 1604.01286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.01286 · pith_short_12: 6Y3O2VLPMB53 · pith_short_16: 6Y3O2VLPMB53RAYL · pith_short_8: 6Y3O2VLP

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/6Y3O2VLPMB53RAYLCETU4EW7OI \
  | 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: f636ed556f607bb8830b11274e12df72373e5f61f3016d2bd3d0b8d917c76dca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f1c8de73325f25108d2f5d8625626dea1b31595e088bf2abc9d65f29fae86501",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-05T15:04:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ad48292ad934dd4af7d95dd54daab70a60ae534b39541c8bd328983472ede2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.01286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}