Pith Number

pith:B4KEA3XF

pith:2026:B4KEA3XFWJNQD2MVHHFQJTS7TA

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Technical Debt Friction for Maintenance Prioritization: An Industrial Multi-Case Study

Adam Tornhill, Antonio Martini, Arda Goknil, Markus Borg, Phu Nguyen, Simeon Tverdal

arxiv:2607.01850 v1 · 2026-07-02 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4KEA3XFWJNQD2MVHHFQJTS7TA}

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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	2026-07-03T01:17:31.633570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f14406ee5b25b01e99539cb04ce5f9806a9a5ee02af262f6499781ced17c0b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.01850 · arxiv_version: 2607.01850v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.01850 · pith_short_12: B4KEA3XFWJNQ · pith_short_16: B4KEA3XFWJNQD2MV · pith_short_8: B4KEA3XF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B4KEA3XFWJNQD2MVHHFQJTS7TA \
  | 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: 0f14406ee5b25b01e99539cb04ce5f9806a9a5ee02af262f6499781ced17c0b7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce546d1c641400855a31d04011c12c2b8ecf527bef01544eb6bd8cb18274ce0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-02T08:11:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43cc5038bdd144b5a0ae8414f62f4d5f4b36b12f191d8dc9c2bb4df0744a64cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.01850",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}