Pith Number

pith:A2B7NTIL

pith:2017:A2B7NTIL2YXE2HWT6ZH5EAGHAR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Anil K. Jain, Kai Cao, Tarang Chugh

arxiv:1712.04489 v1 · 2017-12-12 · cs.CV

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2B7NTIL2YXE2HWT6ZH5EAGHAR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:07.769701Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0683f6cd0bd62e4d1ed3f64fd200c7045312f29ab8a7cd92b46697d7e1286dcc

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04489 · arxiv_version: 1712.04489v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04489 · pith_short_12: A2B7NTIL2YXE · pith_short_16: A2B7NTIL2YXE2HWT · pith_short_8: A2B7NTIL

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/A2B7NTIL2YXE2HWT6ZH5EAGHAR \
  | 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: 0683f6cd0bd62e4d1ed3f64fd200c7045312f29ab8a7cd92b46697d7e1286dcc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "998413e307544105813aebe6c942f1d70204680f101e27844372f027a361292e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T20:05:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c24b1f405e487b2ccf28c59d7780d34ae38326e72f95fea7cc0607f6dc9875c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04489",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}